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Recent Examples of keyhole
Marcello plays the proud, supportive boyfriend, as if Emily has all the time in the world before this big event to look through symbolic keyholes with him.
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Jessica M. Goldstein, Vulture, 18 Dec. 2025
For us, this paradox became the first clue, the keyhole to Marfa’s invisible world.
—Literary Hub, 3 Dec. 2025
Their older sister, Lady Kitty Spencer, 34, also walked the same Cannes red carpet in a purple sequinned Dolce & Gabbana gown with a keyhole cutout.
—Catherine Santino, PEOPLE, 1 Dec. 2025
The wound looked like a gill on a fish, a slim keyhole weeping bright capillary blood.
—Daniyal Mueenuddin, New Yorker, 23 Nov. 2025
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Jessica M. Goldstein, Vulture, 18 Dec. 2025
For us, this paradox became the first clue, the keyhole to Marfa’s invisible world.
—Literary Hub, 3 Dec. 2025
Their older sister, Lady Kitty Spencer, 34, also walked the same Cannes red carpet in a purple sequinned Dolce & Gabbana gown with a keyhole cutout.
—Catherine Santino, PEOPLE, 1 Dec. 2025
The wound looked like a gill on a fish, a slim keyhole weeping bright capillary blood.
—Daniyal Mueenuddin, New Yorker, 23 Nov. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for keyhole
Noun
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Just slip this over the interior door’s peephole and rest assured knowing that no one can use a device to see in.—
Jillian Dara,
Travel + Leisure,
16 Jan. 2026
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The audience watches the Lumière at its original speed as time hurries by within the world of Bi’s movie, the scene not breaking the fourth wall so much as boring a peephole through it.—
Dennis Zhou,
New Yorker,
12 Dec. 2025
Noun
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During the same period, some samples featured leather washers, some had tool pockets, and others used hand-sewn buttonholes, among other distinct characteristics.—
Mohsin Sajid,
Sourcing Journal,
16 Dec. 2025
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Maass traced her rounds, dressed in crisp blue-and-white stripes, white muslin cap with a black ribbon, thermometer pushed through a buttonhole.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
15 Oct. 2025
Noun
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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
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His pinhole view of both markets and states leaves little room for the more complicated, sometimes antagonistic interplay between them.—
Gideon Lewis-Kraus,
New Yorker,
24 Nov. 2025
Noun
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Strolling past glass display cases of fossils and earthenware artifacts, my eyes landed on a rack by the main entrance with flyers advertising children’s events and local flea markets.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
27 Jan. 2026
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After the deadly attacks and the Senate chamber breach, officials closed off some of the entrances to the Capitol building.—
Aki Nace,
CBS News,
26 Jan. 2026
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All of it from the narrow knothole that is our point of view.—
Washington Post,
Washington Post,
27 Jan. 2022
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In addition to the knothole described above, the company plans to consult a community advisory committee, whose members will sign a nondisclosure agreement.—
Steven Litt,
cleveland,
4 July 2021
Noun
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Decades later, physicists rebranded this idea as a wormhole, imagining it as a tunnel between distant regions of space.—
Rupendra Brahambhatt,
Interesting Engineering,
17 Jan. 2026
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The wormhole concept is explained in the fifth season of Stranger Things when science teacher Scott Clarke — played by Randy Havens –– tries to get his class interested in it.—
Katia Riddle,
NPR,
31 Dec. 2025
Noun
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There were also punctures on the outer table of the skull, injuries to the teeth and tongue, and a hemorrhage into the chest cavities, according to the filing.—
Chris Spargo,
PEOPLE,
27 Jan. 2026
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Soaking up uneven terrain is the job of dual independent suspension to the rear, there's a rear differential for stable cornering, and 20-inch cast aluminum wheels front and back are each wrapped in puncture-resistant Kenda rubber.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
16 Jan. 2026
Noun
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In fact, Singer Island was once the north end of Palm Beach, until dredging created an inlet that separates the two island.—
Kelsey Glennon,
Southern Living,
7 Jan. 2026
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As waves and ocean currents carried sand from northern barrier islands over decades, the inlet shifted south, closing the breach between the two islands.—
Jack Prator,
The Orlando Sentinel,
5 Jan. 2026
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“Keyhole.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/keyhole. Accessed 1 Feb. 2026.
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