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a dark underground space in a castle used for keeping prisoners
The king threw them into the dungeon.
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Recent Examples of dungeon
This data started to coalesce a week ago as a result of the rarely-dropping god roll combo on the Vesper’s Host dungeon’s new grenade launcher.
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Paul Tassi, Forbes, 25 Oct. 2024
Trending Boring dungeon design aside, Metaphor ReFantazio is a stellar achievement.
—Josh Broadwell, Rolling Stone, 11 Oct. 2024
With each new game in the Persona series, the studio refines its vision to create engaging role-playing games that marry social sim elements with dungeon crawling.
—Megan Farokhmanesh, WIRED, 8 Oct. 2024
While subsequent Zelda games retained the dungeon and temple exploration of the first series installments, 1998’s Ocarina of Time set a precedent for 3-D graphics.
—Ashley Bardhan, Vulture, 27 Sep. 2024
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Paul Tassi, Forbes, 25 Oct. 2024
Trending Boring dungeon design aside, Metaphor ReFantazio is a stellar achievement.
—Josh Broadwell, Rolling Stone, 11 Oct. 2024
With each new game in the Persona series, the studio refines its vision to create engaging role-playing games that marry social sim elements with dungeon crawling.
—Megan Farokhmanesh, WIRED, 8 Oct. 2024
While subsequent Zelda games retained the dungeon and temple exploration of the first series installments, 1998’s Ocarina of Time set a precedent for 3-D graphics.
—Ashley Bardhan, Vulture, 27 Sep. 2024
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Police departments in those jurisdictions generally do not help ICE carry out street-level arrests, and jails will not hold immigration violators charged with traffic offenses, or in some cases violent felonies.Nick Miroff The Washington Post, arkansasonline.com, 8 Dec. 2024
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But Penny may never even spend a minute in jail for taking another man’s life.Leonard Greene, New York Daily News, 8 Dec. 2024
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Most were ordered to pay a fine and received probation or a few months in prison.Sarah D. Wire, USA TODAY, 8 Dec. 2024
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She could be sentenced to up to five years in prison if convicted.Nicholas Williams, New York Daily News, 8 Dec. 2024
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Another option is to start by placing a wire cage around the shrub and filling it with leaves or pine straw, then wrapping the cage withburlap.Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 8 Dec. 2024
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Thok has also thrown in a suspension pump, multitool, rear UDH hanger set, water bottle with cage, an aluminum mug and a keychain (plus stickers).Paul Ridden, New Atlas, 5 Dec. 2024
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The government held both Padilla and al-Marri in a Navy brig to keep them out of civilian custody.Brian Michael Jenkins, Foreign Affairs, 1 Feb. 2012
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Rare photos showcase the quirky spot where mock battles were staged while female patrons were abducted and held in the brig to see who could scream the loudest — highly inappropriate by today’s standards.Pat Saperstein, Variety, 28 June 2024
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After the controversy died down, Buzbee did move the tank, first to his ranch (posting a video of him using it to crush cars on Instagram) and then to his alma mater, Texas A&M University, the following year, according to CNN affiliate KHOU.Andy Rose, CNN, 11 Dec. 2024
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Other SUVs of its size can do more miles on a tank.Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 11 Dec. 2024
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Unsurprisingly, perhaps, Hollinger’s affairs proved to be a total mess: Black was later convicted of fraud and obstruction of justice and spent more than three years in a federal penitentiary.Tad Friend, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2024
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From a federal penitentiary in Virginia, Jose Landa-Rodriguez reconnected with an old friend in California.Matthew Ormseth, Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2024
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In a 2023 episode of the home renovation show, Hall and Haack proudly showed off their chicken coop which features black and white paint and a double gable roof.Raven Brunner, People.com, 2 Dec. 2024
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Since then, the House of Harlow founder has established a downright wholesome cottagecore-style home life for herself, raising a menagerie of pets, gardening, beekeeping, and harvesting eggs from her backyard chicken coop.Katie Schultz, Architectural Digest, 2 Dec. 2024
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