dungeon
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The narrator is paranoid, weepy and violent, overwhelmed by visions of his own death, and the bass sounds as if it’s descending to a windowless dungeon.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
At that point, it felt like a dungeon, the inner rooms.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 21, 2026
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
Through luck, Sam and Mike narrowly avoided placement in the dungeon as the unit had no capacity.
From Slate ● Oct. 20, 2024
But: “I remember,” he was later to say, “the day my dungeon shook and my chains fell off.”
From "Go Tell It on the Mountain" by James Baldwin
She also prayed in a 17th Century chapel that was positioned directly above the dungeons.
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026
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
Missions include navigating dungeons, solving puzzles and taking on an array of enemies.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 16, 2025
In the book, Dr. Oxnam described how the personalities inhabited a vivid internal world — a castle with rooms, dungeons, walkways and a library behind iron-locked doors.
From New York Times ● May 2, 2024
“While the Imperial Palace is supposed to be grander, the dungeons are all the same.”
From "When the Sea Turned to Silver" by Grace Lin
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