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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

One of the newly unearthed Saqqara masks was discovered outside a Greco-Roman catacomb discovered in 2019.

From New York Times Feb. 12, 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

For a time, sunshine trickles into the tunnels through the catacomb grates, weakly lighting the floor.

From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir




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