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Despite warnings that an escape attempt would turn the Romanian guards against the prisoners, Bob O’Reilly, Poulson’s Missouri-born pilot, schemes with a number of POWs to tunnel out.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

They resemble a glowing white tunnel, 30 feet long and 12 feet in diameter.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026

United supporters chanted Carrick's name as the former England international made his way to the tunnel after the match, but quickly directed boos at the players once Carrick had made his way off the pitch.

From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2026

On Wednesday, Eisenkot posted a video on X wishing Netanyahu a happy 77th birthday that featured a slate of AI-generated characters including a Hamas member speaking from a tunnel.

From Barron's ● Oct. 24, 2026

The car veers into another light tunnel, and it takes us above the governing district.

From "The Manifestor Prophecy" by Angie Thomas

Once the lava drains away, it can leave behind hollow tunnels.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 8, 2026

Widening the Brynglas tunnels, for example, could cost £1.7bn, but pose an "engineering/geotechnical risk" and major construction disruption.

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026

Military analysts say that one potential legitimate use of the large payload bombs would be destroying underground tunnels and bunkers, places ordinary bombs can’t reach.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026

Coming from Victorville, he wasn’t used to areas with no light and didn’t understand how it could travel through different tunnels down the street, reflecting so spectacularly off high-rise buildings.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

She tried to extend her senses, to see through the Mist and find the cavern again, but all she felt were tunnels splitting off in a dozen directions, going everywhere except forward.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan

“At these depths, there would not be noise and vibration,” Sheridan said, noting that Metro had tunneled in similar soil conditions at similar depths without settlement problems.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 24, 2026

In 2021, using lidar technology, Estrada-Belli found evidence that looters had tunneled inside a seemingly royal pyramid within the city’s monumental core.

From National Geographic ● Jan. 26, 2024

Voilà, your water wave has tunneled through a wall!

From Scientific American ● Oct. 12, 2023

The incident occurred within the light-rail line’s most dangerous stretch, on MLK Way South, where trains are on the surface rather than being elevated or tunneled like other parts of the line.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 12, 2023

Silverfish tunneled through the pages, burrowing arbitrarily from species to species, turning organized information into yellow lace.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy

Zubaidi was also in the news in 2021, when he tunnelled out of an Israeli prison before being recaptured after five days.

From BBC ● Jan. 19, 2025

According to the report, the six were cell mates and tunnelled out of Gilboa prison in northern Israel, where security forces launched a search.

From Reuters ● Sep. 6, 2021

Yet the magazine’s final moment of thumb-in-the-eye relevance—this May, when Donald Trump compared Pete Buttigieg to Alfred E. Neuman—emphasized just how deeply Mad has tunnelled its way into the culture, waiting to inspire anew.

From The New Yorker ● Jul. 25, 2019

Over a century, the miners have tunnelled so deep into the earth – 2km at some points – that they have now literally undermined the town.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 2, 2018

Many houses there were, chambers, halls, and passages, cut and tunnelled back into the walls upon their inner side, so that all the open circle was overlooked by countless windows and dark doors.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien

Using scanning tunneling microscopy, the team identified CDWs in the material.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 7, 2026

Elon Musk continues to draw investment dollars — this time for a tunneling company that just raised $3 billion so it can help “solve traffic” via expensive underground tunnels.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 2026

The Boring Company, a tunneling startup that works closely with Tesla, just raised $3 billion through a private funding round.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026

The Boring Company recently closed an investment round that would value the tunneling startup at around $20 billion.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026

She was already running, tunneling through the crowd, bouncing off grown-ups’ legs, her mother after her, “Excuse me...excuse me...”

From "Wringer" by Jerry Spinelli

McGoran also says that technologies such as laser-guidance systems and gyroscopes, which help machines work out their position relative to the world around them, have made tunnelling more accurate in recent years.

From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026

However, in her Budget in October the Chancellor, Rachel Reeves, committed to the funding required to begin tunnelling work to Euston.

From BBC ● Jan. 27, 2026

Using quantum "tunnelling", the electron manages to burrow through the energy barrier.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2025

Their work demonstrated that tunnelling can happen not only in a more theoretical world, but also in electrical circuits in the 'real world'.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2025

Soft, soft, but how piercing! boring and drilling into reason, tunnelling through resolution.

From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley