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Recent Examples of airhole
When handling a possum (or any wild mammal), wear protective gloves and place the animal gently in a secure container like a box with a lid and air holes.
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Lydia Patrick, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Dec. 2025
Each container comes with a lid that has a silicone sealing ring around the perimeter and a sealed air hole to keep everything fresh.
—Alicia Geigel, Southern Living, 1 Dec. 2025
Chandler gets awfully cozy in his new digs (just don't cover his air hole).
—Gretchen Hansen, Entertainment Weekly, 27 Nov. 2025
There are also air holes with grommets and air fresheners in it so your sweaty climbing shoes don't get super stank.
—Adrienne So, Wired News, 22 Oct. 2025
About 7 or 8 pieces in the middle had the big holes and to each side there were others that a bit smaller air holes.
—Ticked Off, The Orlando Sentinel, 21 Aug. 2025
Lydia Patrick, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Dec. 2025
Each container comes with a lid that has a silicone sealing ring around the perimeter and a sealed air hole to keep everything fresh.
—Alicia Geigel, Southern Living, 1 Dec. 2025
Chandler gets awfully cozy in his new digs (just don't cover his air hole).
—Gretchen Hansen, Entertainment Weekly, 27 Nov. 2025
There are also air holes with grommets and air fresheners in it so your sweaty climbing shoes don't get super stank.
—Adrienne So, Wired News, 22 Oct. 2025
About 7 or 8 pieces in the middle had the big holes and to each side there were others that a bit smaller air holes.
—Ticked Off, The Orlando Sentinel, 21 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for airhole
Noun
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Its design also incorporates a variable air inlet system to maintain stable airflow as speeds increase.—
Jijo Malayil,
Interesting Engineering,
5 Mar. 2026
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Our group, Save the Inlet, was formed to protect the inlet from this mega-project and grows out the Friends of Bushwick Inlet Park, which has spent the last 20 years fighting to get the city to live up to its promises in the 2005 rezoning.—
Katherine Thompson,
New York Daily News,
2 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Rattlesnake bite symptoms include puncture wounds, swelling, bleeding, pain, agitation or depression, according to UC Davis.—
Brianna Taylor,
Sacbee.com,
12 Mar. 2026
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Despite other staff at the facility intervening quickly, prison officials say the correctional officer suffered several puncture wounds.—
Cecilio Padilla,
CBS News,
10 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Blood pressure reductions can peak within a few hours of drinking beet juice and wear off within about 10 hours — meaning consistent intake may be needed to maintain the benefit.—
Deirdre Bardolf,
FOXNews.com,
16 Mar. 2026
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The agency said all people in ICE custody receive medical, dental and mental health intake screenings within 12 hours of arriving at a detention facility.—
Fousia Abdullahi,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
16 Mar. 2026
Noun
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In 2022, catastrophic flooding caused one of the main entrances to Yellowstone to close for an extended period.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
17 Mar. 2026
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On my last visit, his seated statue, complete with associated bench, was located at the start of the pier entrance.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
16 Mar. 2026
Noun
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And the light shows her pinhole eyes no mercy.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
23 Feb. 2026
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Instead of dotting the same black scrim, like pinholes in a two-dimensional theater backdrop, the stars were scattered through space at dramatically varying distances, a vast swarm of them filling every last corner of an even vaster, more numinous, and emphatically three-dimensional darkness.—
Michael Pollan,
The Atlantic,
26 Jan. 2026
Noun
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But the technique hasn’t worked for the very center, called the transport channel, where most of the pore’s action happens.—
Yasemin Saplakoglu,
Quanta Magazine,
9 Mar. 2026
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Grief came pouring out of every pore of her body as a mom in mourning.—
Randy Myers,
Mercury News,
9 Mar. 2026
Noun
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This unfortunately was not keyhole surgery.—
Nina Corcoran,
Pitchfork,
5 Mar. 2026
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The floor-length gown also featured a keyhole cutout.—
Emma Banks,
InStyle,
4 Mar. 2026
Noun
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The producers then sent us through a wormhole from that first shoot in Borneo all the way to the present.—
Brian Moylan,
Vulture,
26 Feb. 2026
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Astronaut John Crichton falls into a wormhole and emerges in a remote galaxy where he's rescued by a sentient spaceship named Moya and its colorful convict crew.—
Jeff Spry,
Space.com,
14 Feb. 2026
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“Airhole.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/airhole. Accessed 19 Mar. 2026.
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