Thesaurus results for TUNNEL

tunnel

noun

Definition of tunnel

as in cave

a passage that goes under the ground, through a hill, etc. The train goes through a tunnel in the mountain. The moles dug tunnels in the yard.

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Recent Examples of tunnel Rachel and her husband Jon worked tirelessly to bring Hersh and the other hostages home, but on the 328th day of his captivity, Hersh was executed in a tunnel in Gaza. — Will Croxton, CBS News, 23 Aug. 2026 Skiing, a snowmobile tour, ice tunnels and rope walking were fine, and so was walking. — Christopher Elliott, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2026 Arnold used the tunnel design from Episode 2 to expand the path into the Stone Room in Episode 6. — Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 21 Aug. 2026 An investigation has been opened to determine why the tunnels collapsed, identify the victims and those responsible for operating the site, as well as establish any potential criminal liability, the statement said. — Jean Fernand Koena, Los Angeles Times, 20 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for tunnel

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After carefully entering the cave, the photographer watched as more turtles arrived with the rising tide, eventually counting 17 individuals sharing this quiet refuge.

— Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes.com, 23 Aug. 2026
Over time, this process creates fractures, caves and sinkholes.

— Nolan Roth, Scientific American, 23 Aug. 2026

Definition of cave

Noun

This cushion is required at the very top of the caverns to keep the extraction pipes safely submerged in oil rather than the underlying water.

— Siddharth Misra, Fortune, 25 Aug. 2026
The oil in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) is stored at 60 salt caverns thousands of feet underground at four major sites along the Gulf Coast in Louisiana and Texas.

— Spencer Kimball, CNBC, 15 Aug. 2026

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Social media put the storm’s effects on display, with videos of floodwaters leaving cars stranded on highways, stormwater runoff erupting onto city streets and waterfalls cascading onto the subway tracks at Penn Station.

— Colin Mixson, New York Daily News, 21 Aug. 2026
Sarin attack Among those executed in 2018 included guru Shoko Asahara and 12 former members of the Aum Shinrikyo doomsday cult, which orchestrated the 1995 sarin gas attacks on Tokyo's subway system that killed 14 people.

— CBS News, CBS News, 21 Aug. 2026

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