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basement

noun as in room on lower floor of building

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At one point they were held in basement cells with no windows for two months.

From BBC

Mancuso is first glimpsed in the second episode in his lair deep in the basement of a Russian bath house.

“It doesn’t look pretty sometimes. But I think post-pandemic — when every reporter was sitting in their basement or their garage — the audience’s patience and adaptability completely changed.”

The pair now know they were held in a basement beneath the local warehouses where the Russians had made their base.

From BBC

Instead of being handed the reins immediately, Mac started in the basement as a runner, putting security tags on the clothes before they’d go out to the floor.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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