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hatchway

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as in hatch

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Recent Examples of hatchway The company earned widespread recognition as the gold standard for metal hatchway doors and opened offices in Canada and the UK during the 1980s. — Pamela McLoughlin, Hartford Courant, 14 May 2026 Sailors who got snatched up were transported in the holds of small ships known as tenders, which resembled floating jails, with gratings bolted over the hatchways and marines standing guard with muskets and bayonets. — David Grann, The New Yorker, 28 Feb. 2023 Astronomer Mark Aaronson, 36, was killed in 1987 when a design flaw allowed the 150-ton revolving dome of the Kitt Peak Observatory in Arizona to continue rotating after it had been switched off, catching and crushing Aaronson in a hatchway. — Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Oct. 2022 Working swiftly in the frigid water, divers inserted miniature ROVs through openings in the main hatchway and skylights in the crew’s cabins, officers’ mess, and captain’s stateroom. — Roff Smith, National Geographic, 28 Aug. 2019

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The resulting maggots hatch within a day and begin ravenously feasting on the living flesh of their victims.

— Beth Mole, ArsTechnica, 7 Aug. 2026
In a laboratory 2 kilometers underground, a crane lowers Matt Depatie, a detector technologist, through a hatch into a white-walled cavern filled with about 7,000 tons of ultrapure water that glows as blue as wiper fluid in the light.

— James Dinneen, Quanta Magazine, 7 Aug. 2026

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The bedroom is on floor one, the first door on the right (that door, by the way, has three peepholes carved seemingly at random), and is bedecked in reddish wood.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Aug. 2026
With the door now open for the home team, Florida’s Austin Richardson on Feel the Magic made up the ground the Freedom were hoping for.

— Ava DiCecca, Sun Sentinel, 8 Aug. 2026

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There’s a rich sense of history here, too, from the naming of all four stands after club legends and former owner Sir Jack Hayward to the statue of England great Billy Wright that sits outside the main entrance on Waterloo Road.

— Richard Sutcliffe, New York Times, 13 Aug. 2026
Elsewhere is an exercise room, an art studio, and an office suite with its own entrance, as well as a primary suite boasting a walk-in closet and a luxe bath flowing out to a serene meditation garden with a hot tub.

— Wendy Bowman, Robb Report, 12 Aug. 2026

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