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catacomb

[kat-uh-kohm] / ˈkæt əˌkoʊm /
NOUN
underground tunnel
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Roughly half a million people pass each day through this cramped, dingy catacomb beneath Madison Square Garden.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 22, 2026

Stewart questioned: "Is there no one who can offer a more nuanced analysis of our newly formulated position in this conflict, preferably in some type of catacomb or echoey tunnel?"

From Salon • May 10, 2024

The offer was appealing enough to entice a wine connoisseur down to a dank, dungeonlike catacomb — despite his terrible hacking cough — to sample it.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 20, 2023

The catacomb studio is stocked with esoteric electronic instruments, some of which shaped the band’s intense, darkly psychedelic new album, “False Lankum.”

From New York Times • Mar. 25, 2023

I keep quiet and lean against the catacomb wall, arms crossed.

From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir




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