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dungeon

[duhn-juhn] / ˈdʌn dʒən /
NOUN
prison
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He said there was now "a greater facility in tackling" the dungeon, as players can now easily change a critical in-game item known as heavy boots and have "the ability to leverage the camera orientation".

From BBC ● Nov. 8, 2026

"The remake really leans into the surreal, uncanny nature of the original dungeon."

From BBC ● Nov. 8, 2026

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

In response, the leader of Arioka orders Kanbei be thrown in the castle’s impeccably dingy dungeon.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026

But Penelope, Simon, and the children found themselves in a pitch-dark tunnel that seemed more like the way to a dungeon.

From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood

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

If Link is puzzle-solving muscle, Zelda is conjurer, a solution-based thinker whose approach to monsters, dungeons and rifts that turn the world into fragments is equal parts patience, humor and, yes, action.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2024

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

Chaol would throw her in the dungeons if he found her in some secret passageway—especially if the passageway led out of the castle!

From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas


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