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subways

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plural of subway

as in tunnels

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There’s a pleasant absurdity to the advertisements for JAŸ-Z30 that are currently found across New York’s subway tunnels.

— Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 6 July 2026
The storm surge that flooded lower Manhattan inundated streets, subway tunnels and water and sewage lines.

— Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 4 July 2026

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The Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument contains caves that have been used as shelters by nomadic peoples for thousands of years.

— Josh Laskin, Travel + Leisure, 3 July 2026
The researchers successfully recovered ancient human DNA in samples taken from five of the 11 caves.

— Tom Metcalfe, Scientific American, 2 July 2026

Definition of caves

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Discoverers Of Raccoon Mountain Caverns Of course, the caverns pre-date human discovery, but their benefits were being enjoyed even before the caverns were opened.

— Mary Catherine McAnnally Scott, Southern Living, 4 July 2026
Dragonstone is the windswept ancestral seat of House Targaryen, but the Black Queen did not grow up playing among its dusky caverns.

— Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 29 June 2026

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