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warren

[wawr-uhn, wor-] / ˈwɔr ən, ˈwɒr- /
NOUN
cramped, mazelike place
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The Backrooms began with a single unsettling image posted anonymously online: a claustrophobic warren of tawdrily yellow, windowless rooms with aged carpets and harsh overhead fluorescent lights.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 26, 2026

One 11,000-hectare area along the Red River -- roughly the size of Paris -- is slated to become a warren of high-end residential complexes and parks, with roughly 250,000 residents relocated.

From Barron's ● Jun. 24, 2026

“In short order the warren of oddly shaped rooms in the carriage house became spaces for lectures, workshops, and impromptu performances,” Mr. Gennari writes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 28, 2025

"On the ground floor there were no windows. It felt like you were in a hospital in the basement. It was a slightly gloomy place, a gloomy rabbit warren."

From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2025

Their enemies, he explained, were fools who made more runs than any properly organized warren needed.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams

Yet something inherent in the human psyche still pushes us fiercely toward the rabbit warrens of outlier theories.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026

The only other mammal thought to maintain stable, mixed-sex, multi-adult groups with several exclusive pair bonds is the Patagonian mara, a large rabbit-like rodent that lives in communal warrens made up of long-term couples.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 22, 2026

Not far from the Canton Fair, there are warrens of workshops in Guangdong making clothes, shoes and bags.

From BBC ● Apr. 15, 2025

Some tore down barriers meant to lock in the crowded warrens of shops and cheap apartments.

From New York Times ● Nov. 30, 2022

The Western Market was a great square of beaten earth surrounded by warrens of mud-baked brick, animal pens, whitewashed drinking halls.

From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin



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