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In 2015, investigators found that at least four HP machines dedicated to Sabre were tunneling large amounts of data to an external server.

From Reuters • Jun. 26, 2019

He also confirmed that the Soviets were tunneling beneath the reactor in an attempt to seal off the damaged unit from below with concrete, thus protecting the underlying ground and water table.

From Time Magazine Archive

They were tunneling slowly but surely toward the city from a point about half a mile from the diving chamber.

From Astounding Stories of Super-Science September 1930 by Bates, Harry

It was known that the Yankees were undermining our works, and we were tunneling all around to meet them, but our tunnel at the Crater missed them about fifty feet.

From The Southern Soldier Boy A Thousand Shots for the Confederacy by Elliott, James Carson

An interesting detail of this operation is the fact that while the Italians were tunneling for this great mine they were perfectly aware that the Austrians also were at work upon a similar effort.

From Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights by Miller, Kelly