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warren

[wawr-uhn, wor-] / ˈwɔr ən, ˈwɒr- /
NOUN
cramped, mazelike place
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The Backrooms began with a single unsettling image posted anonymously online: a claustrophobic warren of tawdrily yellow, windowless rooms with aged carpets and harsh overhead fluorescent lights.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 26, 2026

The work depicts a group of characters who find themselves trapped in a warren of bizarrely laid-out rooms resembling empty offices, illuminated by a pallid yellow light.

From Barron's ● May 28, 2026

The morning before he died, Dipu Chandra Das left home at first light, stepping out of his tin-sheet house in Bangladesh's Mymensingh city, overlooking a warren of lanes off the highway from Dhaka.

From BBC ● Feb. 15, 2026

Bari Vecchia—or “old” Bari—is a dizzying but inviting warren of white-stone alleyways and sunny piazzas that make up the historic heart of the city.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2025

It was less and less easy to keep the size of the warren under control.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams

The only other mammal thought to maintain stable, mixed-sex, multi-adult groups with several exclusive pair bonds is the Patagonian mara, a large rabbit-like rodent that lives in communal warrens made up of long-term couples.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 22, 2026

It was a common scene in the slums of the Cambodian capital: warrens of huts wedged between garbage-strewn streets; tiny children begging for food at nearly every corner.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2025

Not far from the Canton Fair, there are warrens of workshops in Guangdong making clothes, shoes and bags.

From BBC ● Apr. 15, 2025

The film’s success is thanks in part to audiences that have returned over and over to get lost in the rocky warrens and spiritual reckonings of the planet Arrakis.

From New York Times ● Apr. 17, 2024

I’m sure there can’t be many warrens where all the rabbits can meet together underground.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams


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