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
Rosemary Feitelberg,
Footwear News,
22 June 2026
The eggs hatch within about 12 to 24 hours.
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Jen Christensen,
CNN Money,
22 June 2026
Jacek Krywko,
ArsTechnica,
23 June 2026
Khalil trained a generation of volunteers in ecological conservation, protecting the Mediterranean coastline and the endangered sea turtles that travel hundreds of miles to return to the same beaches where they were hatched to lay their eggs.
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Jane Arraf,
NPR,
21 June 2026
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Noun
About an hour later, surveillance footage allegedly showed two individuals entered the store’s stockroom through a ceiling hatch door that was connected to the rear fire escape system.
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Rosemary Feitelberg,
Footwear News,
22 June 2026
The eggs hatch within about 12 to 24 hours.
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Jen Christensen,
CNN Money,
22 June 2026
Verb
In a few cases, multiple individuals were preserved together in the same concretion, indicating that these animals may have remained in groups for some time after hatching.
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Jacek Krywko,
ArsTechnica,
23 June 2026
Khalil trained a generation of volunteers in ecological conservation, protecting the Mediterranean coastline and the endangered sea turtles that travel hundreds of miles to return to the same beaches where they were hatched to lay their eggs.
—
Jane Arraf,
NPR,
21 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hatch
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The honest answer is that quality across Turkish clinics varies a lot, so the name on the door matters more than the country itself.
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Once at the front of the Chico branch of the Butte County Library, Sayer fatally shot a man at the main door and another inside, authorities said.
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Torres’ inaccuracy in front of goal has even spawned countless memes on Spanish-speaking social media from frustrated fans and amused neutrals.
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These innocuous-seeming actions can kindle dry vegetation, potentially spawning a wildfire.
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Housing sits at the center of that strategy.
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With the completion of a multi-year effort to modernize Baltimore’s rail infrastructure — raising bridges, modifying overpasses and expanding the Howard Street Tunnel to accommodate double-stack container trains — Baltimore once again sits at the center of a national rail breakthrough.
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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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The United States’ war with Iran, costly in all the profound ways that war is, also laid the groundwork for an uneven — and possibly precedent-setting — playing field.
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The City’s Racial Equity Preliminary Plan lays bare the structural, exclusionary policies that have locked communities of color out of wealth-building for generations.
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This preventative dose is most effective when given within 72 hours of tick removal, while the bacteria are incubating.
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Kar, the company’s CEO, was a founding team member at Palo Alto Networks and oversaw Juniper Networks’ entire Ethernet portfolio before the two joined forces at Auradine, a blockchain and AI chip startup where Upscale was incubated.
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“Hatch.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hatch. Accessed 27 Jun. 2026.
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