catacomb
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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
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
The catacomb studio is stocked with esoteric electronic instruments, some of which shaped the band’s intense, darkly psychedelic new album, “False Lankum.”
From New York Times • Mar. 25, 2023
In this 1961 painting by Remedios Varo, a radiant orange woman moves through a blue catacomb lined with stone-cold, female figures with their eyes closed.
From Washington Post • Jul. 15, 2021
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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