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labyrinth

[lab-uh-rinth] / ˈlæb ə rɪnθ /


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He returned with a torch and said it felt like "a labyrinth".

From BBC Jul. 11, 2026

“It’s not just one thread to get out of this labyrinth, this Epstein network,” Beccuau said on French television Sunday.

From The Wall Street Journal May 17, 2026

There’s a labyrinth of restrictions that make HSAs confusing.

From MarketWatch Mar. 30, 2026

But he was also floating within the major label labyrinth, which often came with financial expectations that put artistic expression in the back seat.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 13, 2026

Rubbing her hand, her pursuer followed again, keeping her distance now, as they moved deeper into the deserted labyrinth of brick houses.

From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling

The stations are designed as logical sequences of space, not as labyrinths you wander through.

From The Wall Street Journal May 22, 2026

As art objects, they draw from ’60s minimalism: her monoliths, prisms, cubes, spheres, matrices, labyrinths and French curves are finished in porcelain-white, each a pristine, planar specimen.

From New York Times Jan. 16, 2024

With help from an experienced underwater cave-diving team, Northwestern University researchers have constructed the most complete map to date of the microbial communities living in the submerged labyrinths beneath Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula.

From Science Daily Nov. 10, 2023

One of the many satisfactions of “Oppenheimer,” Nolan’s intellectually thrilling and morally despairing new film, is that it succeeds in locating some of those conventions within another of his ingeniously constructed narrative labyrinths.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 19, 2023

Seeing him lost in the labyrinths of kinship, trembling with uncertainty, the arthritic priest, who was watching him from his hammock, asked him compassionately what his name was.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez




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