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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

The work depicts a group of characters who find themselves trapped in a warren of bizarrely laid-out rooms resembling empty offices, illuminated by a pallid yellow light.

From Barron's ● May 28, 2026

Bari Vecchia—or “old” Bari—is a dizzying but inviting warren of white-stone alleyways and sunny piazzas that make up the historic heart of the city.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 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

There could be no question now of the Efrafans renewing their attack on the warren.

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

These are warrens of small rooms with basic communal facilities, hidden down the city's smaller side-streets.

From BBC ● Jul. 30, 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

They have been burrowing warrens underground across the park’s peninsula, including near the flare station, heightening concerns about potential gas leaks and spills of contaminated liquids.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 11, 2024

The tops of hills are shaved off to make level warrens for the rabbits of the present.

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck


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