catacomb
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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
And so Raphael ditches the pastel conformity of mainstream Communist society for a secretive chop-socking Orthodox monastery where black-frocked monks fling pelmeni like throwing stars and make we’re-not-worthy genuflections in a catacomb of skulls.
From New York Times • Feb. 22, 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
Sing Sing at night felt like a catacomb.
From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover
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