as in doors
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 hatches
Keith Cooper, Space.com, 9 Apr. 2026
On the shipwreck the hatches are fastened properly.
—Tribune News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Apr. 2026
The closeout crew had closed the first of two hatches that need to be shut tight before launch.
—Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 1 Apr. 2026
Assisting them will be a five-person team known as the closeout crew, which is responsible for closing and performing leak checks on Orion's hatches and are the last people the astronauts see before launch.
—Miles Doran, CBS News, 1 Apr. 2026
Soon, the closeout crew will close the crew module and the exterior hatches on the launch abort system, which is a lengthy, careful process.
—Charlie Gile, NBC news, 1 Apr. 2026
The smugglers let him aboard, and the boy clambered around hatches that, if opened, would reveal dozens of felonies worth of illicit cargo.
—Jack Crosbie, Rolling Stone, 17 Mar. 2026
Leeds battened down the hatches.
—Beren Cross, New York Times, 16 Mar. 2026
Andrey Fedyaev – opened the hatches to board the outpost.
—Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 24 Feb. 2026
Jeff Spry, Space.com, 30 Mar. 2026
After successfully impersonating Sarah Kim as a customer in luxury shops across the city, Mi-jeong hatches a plan to kill Sarah Kim and take her place.
—Kayti Burt, Time, 13 Feb. 2026
With her daughter back in Madrid waiting for a solid offer for the apartment, Maria hatches a plan.
—G. Allen Johnson, San Francisco Chronicle, 11 Feb. 2026
Feeling bored, resentful and trapped by domestic life, Hedda hatches a plan to destroy her husband’s potential career rival, Eilert Lovberg, who happens to be her ex-lover.
—Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Feb. 2026
In desperation, Yoo hatches a chilling yet darkly logical plan.
—Robert Lang, Deadline, 6 Jan. 2026
In the holiday rom-com, a single mother (Alexandra Breckenridge) hatches a scheme to dress up as an old man and get a job at an upscale ski resort to snag her daughter discount snowboard lessons.
—Brian Truitt, USA Today, 23 Dec. 2025
There’s Mary Carr (Erin Doherty), queen of the female gang the Forty Elephants, who’s sick of stealing from the poor and hatches a scheme to yoink valuables from the Queen of England.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 1 Dec. 2025
The larvae then hatches from the eggs and burrows into tissue of animals to feed on them.
—Lori Ann Larocco, CNBC, 13 Nov. 2025
Noun
During this stage of the descent, Orion will be engulfed in a fireball, flickering plasma igniting outside the window hatches.
—Keith Cooper, Space.com, 9 Apr. 2026
On the shipwreck the hatches are fastened properly.
—Tribune News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Apr. 2026
The closeout crew had closed the first of two hatches that need to be shut tight before launch.
—Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 1 Apr. 2026
Assisting them will be a five-person team known as the closeout crew, which is responsible for closing and performing leak checks on Orion's hatches and are the last people the astronauts see before launch.
—Miles Doran, CBS News, 1 Apr. 2026
Soon, the closeout crew will close the crew module and the exterior hatches on the launch abort system, which is a lengthy, careful process.
—Charlie Gile, NBC news, 1 Apr. 2026
The smugglers let him aboard, and the boy clambered around hatches that, if opened, would reveal dozens of felonies worth of illicit cargo.
—Jack Crosbie, Rolling Stone, 17 Mar. 2026
Leeds battened down the hatches.
—Beren Cross, New York Times, 16 Mar. 2026
Andrey Fedyaev – opened the hatches to board the outpost.
—Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 24 Feb. 2026
Verb
With time running out to beat Russia, NASA hatches an 11th-hour plan to replace a veteran astronaut (Duvall) with a civilian geologist (Caan) for a one-way moon trip using a modified Gemini spacecraft.
—Jeff Spry, Space.com, 30 Mar. 2026
After successfully impersonating Sarah Kim as a customer in luxury shops across the city, Mi-jeong hatches a plan to kill Sarah Kim and take her place.
—Kayti Burt, Time, 13 Feb. 2026
With her daughter back in Madrid waiting for a solid offer for the apartment, Maria hatches a plan.
—G. Allen Johnson, San Francisco Chronicle, 11 Feb. 2026
Feeling bored, resentful and trapped by domestic life, Hedda hatches a plan to destroy her husband’s potential career rival, Eilert Lovberg, who happens to be her ex-lover.
—Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Feb. 2026
In desperation, Yoo hatches a chilling yet darkly logical plan.
—Robert Lang, Deadline, 6 Jan. 2026
In the holiday rom-com, a single mother (Alexandra Breckenridge) hatches a scheme to dress up as an old man and get a job at an upscale ski resort to snag her daughter discount snowboard lessons.
—Brian Truitt, USA Today, 23 Dec. 2025
There’s Mary Carr (Erin Doherty), queen of the female gang the Forty Elephants, who’s sick of stealing from the poor and hatches a scheme to yoink valuables from the Queen of England.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 1 Dec. 2025
The larvae then hatches from the eggs and burrows into tissue of animals to feed on them.
—Lori Ann Larocco, CNBC, 13 Nov. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hatches
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Investigators allege the suspect later went to OpenAI headquarters, where surveillance video captured him throwing a chair at the building’s glass doors.—
Sarah Rumpf-Whitten , Brooke Taylor,
FOXNews.com,
14 Apr. 2026
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About 75% of Flower Shop’s beer production will go out the doors through distribution, Sabo said.—
Max Scheinblum,
Denver Post,
14 Apr. 2026
Verb
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The energy of the collision spawns many new particles, including—sometimes—W bosons.—
Clara Moskowitz,
Scientific American,
10 Apr. 2026
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But reading the profile of Mohamad Eisa and Yolka Gessen left me with a kind of dread, the kind that comes when a spin-off from a hit show spawns a spin-off of its own, promising/threatening hundreds of new hours of content to keep up with.—
Jessa Crispin,
Air Mail,
24 Jan. 2026
Verb
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Inside, a fuzzy white possum, seduced by cat food, sits, befuddled.—
Bill Kearney,
Sun Sentinel,
19 Apr. 2026
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The Uptown location, which sits close to Hennepin Avenue and 36th Street in Minneapolis, served 402 clients last year.—
Frederick Melo,
Twin Cities,
19 Apr. 2026
Verb
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Veteran model Eva Herzigova is pictured in a sculptural skirt suit, while Liu Wen broods in a puffy leather bomber jacket.—
Miles Socha,
Footwear News,
3 Sep. 2019
Verb
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What emerges is an intimate, cinematic process that lays bare the musician’s deep connections and inspirations in Tribeca alum Josh Alexander’s moving music documentary.—
Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
16 Apr. 2026
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This straightforward set-up lays the groundwork for a moving, and often anxiety-inducing, investigation of language, empathy, and miscommunication.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
15 Apr. 2026
Verb
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The store is owned by the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community on their tribal land and licensed under their cannabis ordinance, which sets rules and regulations consistent with Minnesota laws, according the tribe.—
Frankie McLister,
CBS News,
12 Apr. 2026
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There are a few high-end hotels that offer access to the national park but what sets Silverback Lodge apart is the view.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
11 Apr. 2026
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