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dungeon

[duhn-juhn] / ˈdʌn dʒən /
NOUN
prison
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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

The catacombs beneath a crumbling city have cracked wide open, revealing a vast, spiraling dungeon teeming with strange beasts and stranger plants.

From Salon ● May 12, 2025

I reached the last level of the dungeon around four o’clock in the morning and faced off against the Evil Wizard of Daggorath.

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

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

Long-running series like The Legend of Zelda tout the Hyrule kingdom’s mysteries, rife with dim dungeons and vast wetlands observed from mountaintops.

From New York Times ● Feb. 21, 2024

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

If she is also thinking about Jack and Sarah stealing through the hobgoblin king’s castle, looking for a way to the dungeons to free the fairy princess.

From "How to Disappear Completely" by Ali Standish




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