rabbit warren

Definition of rabbit warrennext
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 See All Example Sentences for rabbit warren
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Noun
  • Old school computer gamers will be intimately familiar with the dungeon crawler genre, popularized by games like Wizardry and Eye of the Beholder, which involves moving in first-person on a grid, taking on monsters, finding treasure and delving deeper into a labyrinth.
    Jason Bennett, Arkansas Online, 28 June 2026
  • Under the streets of Paris, a 75-mile labyrinth of pipes is at work trying to keep the parts of the city cool.
    Francois de Beaupuy, Fortune, 28 June 2026
Noun
  • And there was the part of her that was more lucid, drawing her back to the entrance of the maze, trying to piece together the message that was being transmitted.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 13 July 2026
  • The after-hours, extra-ticket Halloween event will feature a maze called Everything Must Stay, based on a suburban home that won’t sell — and it’s been on the market six years, the story goes.
    Dewayne Bevil, The Orlando Sentinel, 10 July 2026

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“Rabbit warren.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rabbit%20warren. Accessed 15 Jul. 2026.

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