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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

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

First you have to understand, I'm afraid, the labyrinth of Whitehall's process.

From BBC Apr. 18, 2026

Theseus found his way out of the labyrinth by trailing a thread behind him; to Penelope this seemed a waste of good embroidery floss.

From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood

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

From The Wall Street Journal May 22, 2026

As art objects, they draw from ’60s minimalism: her monoliths, prisms, cubes, spheres, matrices, labyrinths and French curves are finished in porcelain-white, each a pristine, planar specimen.

From New York Times Jan. 16, 2024

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

Finger labyrinths are handheld and allow the user to trace the path with their finger to induce a meditative state.

From Los Angeles Times May 4, 2023

Spaces she once knew as familiar—the four-room flat she shares with her father, the little tree-lined square at the end of their street—have become labyrinths bristling with hazards.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr




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