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tunnel

noun as in covered passageway

verb as in dig a passage through

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The airport, which is also host to a manufacturing facility for Elon Musk’s company SpaceX and was the site of a test tunnel built by the Boring Co., gives Archer a stake in Los Angeles.

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“There’s remnants of what the ride became,” Hahn says, pointing to the map’s depictions of tunnels and sandy areas with hidden loot.

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“I need to know where the light is at the end of the tunnel.”

The Channel Tunnel is an undersea tunnel linking southern England and northern France.

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The children thought it all a great game; by turns they pretended they were moles in dark tunnels, or explorers charting an unmapped jungle, or Postal Tygers delivering the mail along an unfamiliar route.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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