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dungeon

[duhn-juhn] / ˈdʌn dʒən /
NOUN
prison
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He scrambled together a videotape, renting out a dungeon batting cage in Manhattan for a throwing session.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026

The narrator is paranoid, weepy and violent, overwhelmed by visions of his own death, and the bass sounds as if it’s descending to a windowless dungeon.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

It’s a gauntlet made thornier whenever Murashige, who believes in mercy over violence, engages with Kanbei, chained in a dungeon but with a dangerous mind nonetheless.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026

Today, dragons and dungeon crawls are common entertainments.

From Salon ● Jun. 24, 2026

We beat the dungeon mere seconds before Lorren’s mom ordered her to get off the game or she’d shut off the electricity in the whole house.

From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows

She also prayed in a 17th Century chapel that was positioned directly above the dungeons.

From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026

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

Missions include navigating dungeons, solving puzzles and taking on an array of enemies.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 16, 2025

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

But there was a monster, supposedly, and these dungeons were spooky, and she just wanted to figure out which door her key opened up, and she wanted to get out of there.

From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack


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