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stygian

[stij-ee-uhn] / ˈstɪdʒ i ən /








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Sometimes we come to a fuller reckoning of ourselves through the most Stygian passageways.

From New York Times • Oct. 25, 2023

He parked next to a dimly lit footbridge, which wobbled with our passage above a Stygian chasm.

From Washington Post • Apr. 22, 2022

The summer-stock theatricality of finding each other dissipated as the pair walked along the museum’s Stygian passageways.

From The New Yorker • May 8, 2017

Is the name a nod to the local passion for the Stygian side of the beer world?

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 22, 2016

He was roughly the same height as Bob, with elaborate Stygian iron armor, a single diamond blazing in the center of his breastplate.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan