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dungeon

[duhn-juhn] / ˈdʌn dʒən /
NOUN
prison
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In “Twenty-Sided Tavern,” there are three core actors playing and acting out the game, one dungeon master and a sort of tavern keeper helping to keep score and track of the story.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 10, 2025

The show is part travelogue, part adventure quest with monsters, magic battles and dungeon exploration.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 4, 2025

The dungeon is full of weird, pulsing, half-sentient creatures — more slime than steak.

From Salon May 12, 2025

At least two other Texas prisons, the Gib Lewis Unit and the John B. Connally Unit, have their own version of the dungeon.

From Slate Oct. 20, 2024

I began to make my way through the dungeon, room by room.

From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline

It’s weird to be alive at a time when much of contemporary warfare comprises literal laser beams, flying robots and dungeons full of nerds at computer terminals, but that’s really what’s happening.

From Salon Mar. 25, 2026

Mr Hamaguchi says the developers want the open world to work as "one single space" with "all of the towns, all of the dungeons and everything linked together seamlessly in one space".

From BBC Sep. 21, 2023

Classic dungeons return in the form of multilayered temples with interlocking puzzles.

From New York Times May 12, 2023

Harris descended into the dungeons of the facility, toured the cells where enslaved people were kept and walked through the so-called door of no return, choking back tears, her hand over her mouth.

From Washington Post Mar. 28, 2023

He therefore approached the final lesson of the afternoon —- double Potions — feeling considerably more cheerful than he usually did when descending the steps to the dungeons.

From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling




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