underground route
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Thousands of people respond to the lure of a better life abroad every year, but many take the underground route - via smugglers and sometimes dangerous journeys by sea and road.
From Reuters • Oct. 28, 2019
The Boring Co. has also proposed a 3.6-mile underground route that would carry baseball fans between Dodger Stadium and a nearby Metro subway station.
From Los Angeles Times • May 22, 2019
With the rise of the Islamic State in war-wracked Syria and its leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, Emwazi devised an underground route to escape his adopted country in 2012.
From Washington Times • Jan. 24, 2016
He added they had also conducted a forensics sweep along the underground route the prisoners apparently used and “beyond their point of exit from the facility.”
From New York Times • Jun. 7, 2015
They also maintained the underground route through which downed Allied plane crews reached the North Sea coast.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
