as in labyrinth
a confusing and complicated arrangement of passages
got lost in the warren of interconnected side streets
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Recent Examples of warren
Israeli hostages, many of them thin and pale, reunited with their families after many months in Hamas’s warren of underground tunnels.
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Rawan Sheikh Ahmad, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2025
Chaotic warrens in rundown backwaters, such as the desolate apartment complex where Beibei’s grandmother used to live, suggest neglect that’s far from benign.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 29 Jan. 2025
Many offices in the C.I.A. are warrens of cubicles or have clusters of desks for assistants.
—Julian E. Barnes, New York Times, 18 Jan. 2025
The warren of porta-johns at Camp Soberoo’s Plaza 7 is a claustrophobically narrow little grotto of about a dozen loos that within an hour of my being here Dylan and I decide to rechristen the Château de Bonnapoo.
—Barrett Swanson, Harper's Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025
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Rawan Sheikh Ahmad, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2025
Chaotic warrens in rundown backwaters, such as the desolate apartment complex where Beibei’s grandmother used to live, suggest neglect that’s far from benign.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 29 Jan. 2025
Many offices in the C.I.A. are warrens of cubicles or have clusters of desks for assistants.
—Julian E. Barnes, New York Times, 18 Jan. 2025
The warren of porta-johns at Camp Soberoo’s Plaza 7 is a claustrophobically narrow little grotto of about a dozen loos that within an hour of my being here Dylan and I decide to rechristen the Château de Bonnapoo.
—Barrett Swanson, Harper's Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025
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“Warren.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/warren. Accessed 25 Mar. 2025.
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