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dungeon

[duhn-juhn] / ˈdʌn dʒən /
NOUN
prison
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He scrambled together a videotape, renting out a dungeon batting cage in Manhattan for a throwing session.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026

The narrator is paranoid, weepy and violent, overwhelmed by visions of his own death, and the bass sounds as if it’s descending to a windowless dungeon.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

In “Twenty-Sided Tavern,” there are three core actors playing and acting out the game, one dungeon master and a sort of tavern keeper helping to keep score and track of the story.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 10, 2025

The closer we got to the dungeon, the more the administration building deteriorated.

From Slate ● Oct. 20, 2024

Ivy remembered arguing with her, telling her that being trapped in a dark dungeon would be an adventure.

From "Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World" by Ashley Herring Blake

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

If Link is puzzle-solving muscle, Zelda is conjurer, a solution-based thinker whose approach to monsters, dungeons and rifts that turn the world into fragments is equal parts patience, humor and, yes, action.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2024

In the book, Dr. Oxnam described how the personalities inhabited a vivid internal world — a castle with rooms, dungeons, walkways and a library behind iron-locked doors.

From New York Times ● May 2, 2024

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

Chaol would throw her in the dungeons if he found her in some secret passageway—especially if the passageway led out of the castle!

From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas


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