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
The myth of Chinese tunnels has circulated for more than a century.
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Beth Lew-Williams, New Yorker, 13 Sep. 2025
Intense, dramatic and often life-changing, time speeds up in this energetic tunnel with themes of endings and beginnings coming into view.
—Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 12 Sep. 2025
Boring is still awaiting permits from the city to start construction on a tunnel within city limits that would run below Las Vegas Boulevard.
—Jason Del Rey, Fortune, 12 Sep. 2025
Customers buy a ticket online in advance, line up to enter the tunnel, set their cars to neutral when prompted, and let the spirits guide them forward.
—Charlie Vargas, Oc Register, 12 Sep. 2025
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Beth Lew-Williams, New Yorker, 13 Sep. 2025
Intense, dramatic and often life-changing, time speeds up in this energetic tunnel with themes of endings and beginnings coming into view.
—Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 12 Sep. 2025
Boring is still awaiting permits from the city to start construction on a tunnel within city limits that would run below Las Vegas Boulevard.
—Jason Del Rey, Fortune, 12 Sep. 2025
Customers buy a ticket online in advance, line up to enter the tunnel, set their cars to neutral when prompted, and let the spirits guide them forward.
—Charlie Vargas, Oc Register, 12 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tunnel
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Led by anthropologist Lee Berger, PhD, a director and research professor at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits University) in South Africa, the researchers recently published their new findings on the Rising Star cave system.—
Georgina Jedikovska,
Interesting Engineering,
12 Sep. 2025
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Fuhrich wasn’t the only hero of the caves, historian Johannes Mattes explains.—
Danny Robb,
JSTOR Daily,
12 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Vanuatu’s dive options range from coral reef and dramatic caverns to legendary World War II ship and plane wrecks like Million Dollar Point and the SS President Coolidge, a troopship sunk by mines in 1942 that can be explored with Aore Adventures in Espiritu Santo.—
Terry Ward,
AFAR Media,
11 Sep. 2025
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Divers and snorkelers can explore the geological wonder’s caverns and stalactites that reach up to 40 feet.—
Jennifer Kester,
Forbes.com,
10 Sep. 2025
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Turnstiles are easy to install if there are stairs or escalators to a subway, for example.—
Nick Sullivan,
Charlotte Observer,
11 Sep. 2025
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While the man fled the scene, reportedly into a nearby subway station, officers were able to catch him a short while later and recover the property.—
Dan Gooding
Gabe Whisnant,
MSNBC Newsweek,
10 Sep. 2025
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“Tunnel.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tunnel. Accessed 19 Sep. 2025.
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