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labyrinth

[lab-uh-rinth] / ˈlæb ə rɪnθ /


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The products of similar training programs, both men were Persian speakers adept at shaking off Iranian surveillance teams in the labyrinth of Tehran’s backstreets and alleyways.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026

Chase proves more clever in turning Maya’s harmless couch fort into a claustrophobic labyrinth.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026

A heavy metal door stood open at the end, but I could not help but feel like it may slam shut and I would be trapped in this labyrinth forever.

From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2026

But logic can’t win out — you don’t even remember how you got into this labyrinth to begin with.

From Salon ● Jun. 15, 2026

Max couldn’t even remember the difference between a maze and a labyrinth.

From "The School for Whatnots" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026

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

The lonely facelessness of the facades evokes the paintings of de Chirico and Hopper; lurking staircases nod to the winding labyrinths of M.C.

From New York Times ● May 7, 2023

He could accept many unreal things - hordes of ghosts, magical labyrinths, travel through shadows, chapels made of bones.

From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan


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