dank
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Since then, he’s been confined to a dank cell at Beihai’s No. 2 Detention Center, cut off from his flock and his family, 8,000 miles away in the U.S.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2026
Wearing a surgical mask to hold off the dank air, Reyes chose a bike and, before going to work on its components, performed the last rite for its former life.
From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2026
Most often, though, it is like a cold, dank cellar…..
From BBC • Oct. 20, 2024
He sits in a dank cell in England while he fights extradition to the U.S.
From Salon • Apr. 4, 2024
Olanna changed what was left of her British pounds and bought petrol from a man who led her into a dank outhouse with creamy-fat maggots crawling all over the floor.
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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