dungeon
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In response, the leader of Arioka orders Kanbei be thrown in the castle’s impeccably dingy dungeon.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026
At that point, it felt like a dungeon, the inner rooms.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 21, 2026
The catacombs beneath a crumbling city have cracked wide open, revealing a vast, spiraling dungeon teeming with strange beasts and stranger plants.
From Salon ● May 12, 2025
The guard buzzed us through a solid steel gate to give us entry to the main hallway, with the dungeon located at the end.
From Slate ● Oct. 20, 2024
Everyone called Mr. Rizzo’s room the dungeon because it had only two skinny windows, which didn’t let in any sunlight.
From "Time Bomb" by Joelle Charbonneau
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It’s weird to be alive at a time when much of contemporary warfare comprises literal laser beams, flying robots and dungeons full of nerds at computer terminals, but that’s really what’s happening.
From Salon ● Mar. 25, 2026
Mr Hamaguchi says the developers want the open world to work as "one single space" with "all of the towns, all of the dungeons and everything linked together seamlessly in one space".
From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2023
Classic dungeons return in the form of multilayered temples with interlocking puzzles.
From New York Times ● May 12, 2023
Harris descended into the dungeons of the facility, toured the cells where enslaved people were kept and walked through the so-called door of no return, choking back tears, her hand over her mouth.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 28, 2023
Potions lessons took place down in one of the dungeons.
From "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" by J.K. Rowling
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