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“I felt like I had all four pitches going. I was tunneling really well,” said Detmers, who allowed three runs and two hits.

From Washington Times • May 20, 2023

In 2014, a Fredericksburg, Virginia, man died at Salvo, on North Carolina’s Outer Banks, when sand collapsed on top of him after authorities said he was tunneling between two holes.

From Seattle Times • May 8, 2023

And of course, the big signature project of that era was tunneling under the Hudson and East rivers and building Pennsylvania Station in 1910 at a cost of $112 million in 1910 dollars.

From Washington Post • Aug. 19, 2021

Several weeks ago, hearing the scrape of shovels at night, the ROKs became aware that the enemy was tunneling under Anchor's north slope.

From Time Magazine Archive

And how could he be sure he was tunneling well under the riverbed?

From "Abel's Island" by William Steig