labyrinth
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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
He returned with a torch and said it felt like "a labyrinth".
From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2026
The pair helped the sick find medicine and guided others through the labyrinth of municipal bureaucracy.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 18, 2026
When she came to “Rooster,” she said, Cristle was a conceptual kernel she teased into a labyrinth.
From Salon ● May 11, 2026
Victor followed after her, just fast enough for him not to lose her in the labyrinth of corridors and doors.
From "The Thief Lord" by Cornelia Funke
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The stations are designed as logical sequences of space, not as labyrinths you wander through.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026
Mazes and labyrinths have been around for thousands of years.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 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
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 became lost in misty byways, in times reserved for oblivion, in labyrinths of disappointment.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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