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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

In response, the leader of Arioka orders Kanbei be thrown in the castle’s impeccably dingy dungeon.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 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

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

He supposed Gwydion had been cast in another dungeon; Taran fervently hoped so.

From "The Book of Three" by Lloyd Alexander

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

If Link is puzzle-solving muscle, Zelda is conjurer, a solution-based thinker whose approach to monsters, dungeons and rifts that turn the world into fragments is equal parts patience, humor and, yes, action.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2024

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

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

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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