as in labyrinth
a confusing and complicated arrangement of passages
got lost in the warren of interconnected side streets
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But Meyer utilized that necessity to build tunnels and warrens that only a Bene Gesserit sister could manage.
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Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 2 Dec. 2024
Photo: Rob Youngson/FX Jean McConville was a widowed mother of ten living in the high-rise warren of Divis Flats, a massive public housing complex in West Belfast.
—Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 16 Nov. 2024
The tension begins with a seemingly innocuous scene of Hal walking through a warren of cubicles at the CIA headquarters, on his way for an official U.S. government call to explain the VP’s role in the bombing.
—Mark Peikert, IndieWire, 4 Nov. 2024
The film, directed by Mike Judge, was set in a fictional software company called Initech; many scenes played out under fluorescent lights in a featureless warren of cubicles.
—Cal Newport, The New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2024
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Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 2 Dec. 2024
Photo: Rob Youngson/FX Jean McConville was a widowed mother of ten living in the high-rise warren of Divis Flats, a massive public housing complex in West Belfast.
—Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 16 Nov. 2024
The tension begins with a seemingly innocuous scene of Hal walking through a warren of cubicles at the CIA headquarters, on his way for an official U.S. government call to explain the VP’s role in the bombing.
—Mark Peikert, IndieWire, 4 Nov. 2024
The film, directed by Mike Judge, was set in a fictional software company called Initech; many scenes played out under fluorescent lights in a featureless warren of cubicles.
—Cal Newport, The New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2024
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“Warren.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/warren. Accessed 22 Jan. 2025.
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