rabbit warren

noun

Examples of rabbit warren in a Sentence

The Pentagon is a rabbit warren of corridors. the organization's headquarters is a rabbit warren of small, cramped offices
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On our list are fiction from the wisdom of a rabbit warren to the exploration of the darker side of social media or from the lives of female nurses in Vietnam to thrillers galore, as well as nonfiction favorites from the analysis of presidential politics to a Hollywood biography. Newsweek Staff, Newsweek, 27 Nov. 2024 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 Somewhere amid the rabbit warren of backstage corridors here, work is underway to give its Lyttelton Theatre a huge restructure for The Effect. Kate Lloyd, Vogue, 18 July 2023 The rabbit warren of hallways and thinly-walled rooms felt insular at that hour, the click of stilettos on laminate less urgent than during the day. Hazlitt, 12 July 2023 Situated in the attic of the rambling 19th-century National Arts Club overlooking Gramercy Park, it’s reached via a rabbit warren of staircases and consists of a single room painted chartreuse yellow. Liam Hess, Vogue, 22 June 2023 Visiting the Fun Shop is a little like walking through a fabulous rabbit warren. Joe Heim, Washington Post, 14 June 2023 Orfield Laboratories is laid out like a rabbit warren: a largely windowless hodgepodge of isolated rooms and passageways of unpredictable sizes and shapes arranged along a meandering path of blind curves. Caity Weaver, New York Times, 23 Nov. 2022

Word History

First Known Use

1766, in the meaning defined at sense 1

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The first known use of rabbit warren was in 1766

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“Rabbit warren.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rabbit%20warren. Accessed 23 Dec. 2024.

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