hiding place
noun
: a place where someone or something is hidden or can be hidden
My favorite hiding place when I was a kid was in the attic.
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As night settled across a village in Laos, a slender creature with two eggs visible inside its belly emerged from its hiding place.
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Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 28 Aug. 2025
Hope stubbornly clinging on in a dark hiding place, and despite it all, exploding outward with exuberance.
—Brienne Walsh, Forbes.com, 19 May 2025
Reeds are the perfect hiding place for horrors, as will shortly become abundantly clear, when a girl’s body is revealed in the dirt, in all its helplessness.
—Catherine Bray, Variety, 16 May 2025
And two, even for the plunder of a smash and grab, that seems a sloppy hiding place.
—Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 31 Mar. 2025
His mother had once lived there, and Dahl believed that the location was significant to Williams—and that the surrounding woods might provide a hiding place.
—Ronan Farrow, The New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2025
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Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 28 Aug. 2025
Hope stubbornly clinging on in a dark hiding place, and despite it all, exploding outward with exuberance.
—Brienne Walsh, Forbes.com, 19 May 2025
Reeds are the perfect hiding place for horrors, as will shortly become abundantly clear, when a girl’s body is revealed in the dirt, in all its helplessness.
—Catherine Bray, Variety, 16 May 2025
And two, even for the plunder of a smash and grab, that seems a sloppy hiding place.
—Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 31 Mar. 2025
His mother had once lived there, and Dahl believed that the location was significant to Williams—and that the surrounding woods might provide a hiding place.
—Ronan Farrow, The New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2025
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“Hiding place.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hiding%20place. Accessed 13 Sep. 2025.
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