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subway

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as in tunnel

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Recent Examples of subway Poland also has over 86,000 places of refuge offering a lower level of protection such as basements, underground garages or subway stations, and catering for around 23 million people. — Arkansas Online, 3 Oct. 2026 The bridges serve vehicles and pedestrians, as well as subway, railroad and freight trains. — Francesca Ebel, Washington Post, 3 Oct. 2026 This is the sixth homicide in the New York subway system this year. — ABC News, 2 Oct. 2026 Surveillance video reviewed by the Daily News shows dozens of commuters racing out of the elevated subway stop following the bloody stabbing. — Kerry Burke, New York Daily News, 1 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for subway

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Traditional secure email gateways and web proxies rely on inspecting SMTP traffic or forcing browser sessions through corporate network tunnels.

— Firas Azmeh, Forbes.com, 5 Oct. 2026
Like Hall-effect switches, tunnel magnetoresistance (TMR) switches use magnets, but TMR keyboard PCBs use a different type of sensor.

— ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 5 Oct. 2026

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While there is the Rock Roadhouse Winery, an Ashwood Station Antiques and small galleries nearby, The Omni is at the center of activity— and brings a lot of travelers from all over the world to Bath County.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Oct. 2026
Those include Renée Elise Goldsberry as Michael’s former colleague and lover, contesting cases before a rogue’s gallery of quirky judges played by the likes of Jackie Earle Haley, Jackie Hoffman and Peter Riegert.

— Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 6 Oct. 2026

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