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labyrinth

[lab-uh-rinth] / ˈlæb ə rɪnθ /


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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

Chase proves more clever in turning Maya’s harmless couch fort into a claustrophobic labyrinth.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 21, 2026

He returned with a torch and said it felt like "a labyrinth".

From BBC Jul. 11, 2026

But logic can’t win out — you don’t even remember how you got into this labyrinth to begin with.

From Salon Jun. 15, 2026

Past the gate, the Yards was a labyrinth of brick walls the color of spoiled meat, smoke-guttering flues, and rickety wooden ramps crammed within two square kilometers.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros

The stations are designed as logical sequences of space, not as labyrinths you wander through.

From The Wall Street Journal May 22, 2026

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

Finger labyrinths are handheld and allow the user to trace the path with their finger to induce a meditative state.

From Los Angeles Times May 4, 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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