as in door
a barrier by which an entry is closed and opened
watertight hatches provided access through the ship's bulkheads
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Recent Examples of hatch
Mateo Rosiles,
USA Today,
26 June 2026
Attracted to the smell, the flies will lay eggs in open wounds on warm-blooded animals, and within hours the eggs hatch as the worms burrow in a screw-like pattern into the flesh to feed, according to the advisory.
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Alexandra Kukulka,
Chicago Tribune,
25 June 2026
Melissa Cristina Márquez,
Forbes.com,
25 June 2026
One of the six never hatched and one owlet died May 27, due combination of factors that may be partly related to the ongoing drought, officials said.
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Mark Price
june 25,
Charlotte Observer,
25 June 2026
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Noun
The eggs hatch into larvae that burrow into the wound and feed on living tissue; then, after about seven days of feeding, the larvae drop to the ground, burrow into the soil and pupate.
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Mateo Rosiles,
USA Today,
26 June 2026
Attracted to the smell, the flies will lay eggs in open wounds on warm-blooded animals, and within hours the eggs hatch as the worms burrow in a screw-like pattern into the flesh to feed, according to the advisory.
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Alexandra Kukulka,
Chicago Tribune,
25 June 2026
Verb
These unique sharks, found only in Australia and New Guinea, exhibit extremely limited mobility, with offspring hatching near their parents.
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Melissa Cristina Márquez,
Forbes.com,
25 June 2026
One of the six never hatched and one owlet died May 27, due combination of factors that may be partly related to the ongoing drought, officials said.
—
Mark Price
june 25,
Charlotte Observer,
25 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hatch
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DoorDash your groceries to your door DoorDash Pass members get 5% back in credits on pick-up orders and $0 delivery fees.
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When tragedy struck, the couple was at their own cabin, while Brooke and Blair were staying with their grandparents Mike, 77, and Charlene Harber, 75, at a friend's place a couple of doors down.
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But that kind of partnership also spawned because of their circumstances both with their alliance and everything that happened afterwards.
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His passing spawned a slew of articles about the secret to extreme longevity.
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He’s been known to blow up legislation, make surprise nominations, rage-post about sitting Republican lawmakers and retaliate by endorsing their primary opponents.
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Nearly a year ago, CBS Colorado reported on the home, which had sat vacant for more than six years while falling into severe disrepair.
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Pianist Lex Korten and trumpeter Adam O’Farrill open freely, crash landing into the suite with cold, brooding interplay as opposed to the straightforward funk vamp of Roach’s version.
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Saracho will serve as showrunner and executive producer of the drama series following a captive princess who gets kidnapped by a brooding werewolf alpha and plunged into a bloodthirsty war.
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Female Mexican fruit flies lay thousands of eggs in their lifetime.
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Roberts didn’t use Ryan’s name in laying this out Sunday.
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Believing a rock to be an egg, Roy and Silo took turns incubating it.
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Red Wagon Ventures, a subsidiary of Chick-fil-A that serves to incubate and invest in businesses, quietly launched Acrew Home Professionals in metro Atlanta late last year.
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“Hatch.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hatch. Accessed 4 Jul. 2026.
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