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dungeon

[duhn-juhn] / ˈdʌn dʒən /
NOUN
prison
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At that point, it felt like a dungeon, the inner rooms.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 21, 2026

But for prisoners like Sam and Mike, and for the haunted souls I encountered in the dungeon, official policies hardly matter.

From Slate Oct. 20, 2024

Not another cooking game, but instead a new take on a dungeon crawler where you can team up with your friends to survive in a twisted reality show competition.

From BBC Aug. 21, 2024

The dungeon is the alpha and the omega, it is life and death, for every creature to be found there.

From Salon Apr. 28, 2024

D&D players could explore the labyrinth with their characters as the dungeon master read from the module and guided them through the story it contained, describing everything they saw and encountered along the way.

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

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

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

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

Ser Barristan took two of his new-made knights with him down into the dungeons.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin




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