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 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 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 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 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
  • Located in a pasture that extends from outside her winter house all the way down to her long boxwood allée, the maze is now near completion, with her gardeners and outdoor grounds crew having just planted the last section.
    Martha Stewart, Martha Stewart, 2 July 2026
  • With their billowing sails, teakwood decks and mazes of ropes and rigging, ships like Eagle draw throngs of visitors hoping to get a glimpse of the past.
    Karissa Waddick, USA Today, 1 July 2026

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“Rabbit warren.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rabbit%20warren. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.

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