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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

As the city grew and expanded in that direction, the mines were covered over by the construction of new roads and neighborhoods, which created a labyrinth made up of nearly two hundred miles of tunnels.

From "City Spies" by James Ponti

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

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

He heard the voice of the woman created by a marriage that had its own surprises and labyrinths, its own shadows and secret minotaurs.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy


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