Example Sentences

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Despite record cash levels, companies have bunkered down, presumably traumatized by the financial crisis and reluctant to deploy their cash for activities like hiring.

From New York Times • Dec. 11, 2010

Thai troops have bunkered down inside the Cambodian pagoda and the surrounding jungle.

From Time Magazine Archive