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bunker

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as in vault

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Recent Examples of bunker Reportedly, the mayor’s staff has been keeping him in the bunker of City Hall, like so many of his predecessors in times of crisis, confronting the rest of San Diego in us-versus-them terms. — Carl Luna, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Aug. 2026 Sonnenberg Bunker guide Zora Schelbert walks slowly down the tunnel toward the main structure of the bunker, built in the 1970s, during the Cold War, to house 20,000 people in the event of a nuclear war. — Rob Schmitz, NPR, 8 Aug. 2026 After a study to map its sprawling network of rooms commenced in 2022, a nuclear bunker in northern Italy will transform into a Cold War museum scheduled to open in part next year. — Andy Battaglia, ARTnews.com, 7 Aug. 2026 Her earliest memories are of an underground bunker, patrolled by male guards with whips, where she was imprisoned with thirty-nine older women. — Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for bunker

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Amenities include picnic tables, shade shelters and vault toilets at the campground.

— Jamie Siebrase, Denver Post, 20 Aug. 2026
For now, the live album provides the first official document of a night that was evidently too strange — and potentially too cinematic — to leave in the vault.

— SPIN Staff, SPIN, 19 Aug. 2026

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To that end, Jurin is building its own highly efficient, domain-specific foundation model—much of the frontier capability at a fraction of the compute cost, for customers who cannot, or will not, depend on a model owned in Washington or Beijing.

— Jurin AI Contributor, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2026
Their foundation of Leo Carlsson, Cutter Gauthier and Beckett Sennecke gives them legit top-of-the-lineup forwards with premium offensive traits.

— Corey Pronman, New York Times, 18 Aug. 2026

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