Example Sentences

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“Our estimates suggest that in 2019, 63% of nursing home profits were hidden and tunneled to related parties through inflated transfer prices,” the study says.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 28, 2024

In 2021, using lidar technology, Estrada-Belli found evidence that looters had tunneled inside a seemingly royal pyramid within the city’s monumental core.

From National Geographic • Jan. 26, 2024

Voilà, your water wave has tunneled through a wall!

From Scientific American • Oct. 12, 2023

When the researchers applied a voltage to the graphene bilayers in the magnetic field, the microscope recorded the tiny current from the electrons that "tunneled" out from the material to the microscope probe tip.

From Science Daily • Oct. 5, 2023

He tunneled through the watery darkness, and then the rock above them vanished.

From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack