Thesaurus results for RABBIT WARREN

rabbit warren

noun

Definition of rabbit warren

as in labyrinth

a confusing and complicated arrangement of passages the organization's headquarters is a rabbit warren of small, cramped offices

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Recent Examples of rabbit warren Capable of deploying from the hard-to-monitor rabbit warrens of industrial Tijuana, a basic FPV drone traveling at the leisurely speed of 80 miles an hour gives Navy Base San Diego less than 10 minutes to detect the intrusion and respond. — Craig Hooper, Forbes.com, 8 June 2026 On the other hand, what Edwards frames as an absurdist never-ending rabbit warren is recontextualized by Tony Gilroy’s series as a font of potential. — Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 14 May 2025 What all this gives us is something of an AI maelstrom as complex as a rabbit warren. — Adrian Bridgwater, Forbes, 25 Sep. 2024 Like a rabbit warren, Toni thought, six small rooms, wide wooden floorboards, a tub on avian feet, porcelain sinks and clanking radiators. — Sarah Braunstein, The New Yorker, 21 July 2024

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Noun

In the cobwebbed sub-basement of a Swedish library, an unnamed narrator discovers a labyrinth of twenty-six rooms.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 22 Sep. 2026
This stone is part of a larger labyrinth that eventually reaches an ocean in a system of deep, powerful interdependence.

— Supriya Lopez Pillai, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2026

Definition of labyrinth

Noun

The system is a maze in which laws collide with gray areas, where layers upon layers of policy have accumulated over decades in a pile waiting for reform that has never come.

— Andrew Carter, Chicago Tribune, 20 Sep. 2026
The 24-by-32-foot maze of chambers, gaskets, gauges and pipes has jokingly been nicknamed Martha by some of the technicians who run it.

— Dana Hedgpeth, Washington Post, 20 Sep. 2026