lair
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Swanning around that flawless midcentury lair in bucolic Southern California, smug land of the $22 smoothie, the 3 p.m. goat yoga class, and the unwanted, inexplicable reboot.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
"The suction boots which appear in his first book, The Gremlins, and his last book, Billy and the Minpins, also make an appearance when Sean Connery's Bond is descending into Blofeld's volcano lair," he said.
From BBC ● Nov. 24, 2025
Mancuso is first glimpsed in the second episode in his lair deep in the basement of a Russian bath house.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2025
Until, that is, a colony goes offline following an encounter with what they correctly guess is an xenomorph lair.
From Salon ● Jul. 4, 2025
The descent into the underground lair took longer than I thought it would, partly because the curving staircase was covered in invisible booby traps.
From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia
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