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Recent Examples of keyhole
The wound looked like a gill on a fish, a slim keyhole weeping bright capillary blood.
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Daniyal Mueenuddin, New Yorker, 23 Nov. 2025
Spare keys Some digital locks only replace the inside portion of the lock, meaning the outward-facing side is still a standard lock with a keyhole.
—Cody Godwin, USA Today, 16 Nov. 2025
Handgrips on both sides allow those panels to be lifted off keyhole mounts; the mostly mesh front panel uses snaps to attach.
—PC Magazine, 17 Oct. 2025
Using that precise orbital data, Makadia's team simulated spacecraft impacts under a variety of conditions and projected Bennu's potential keyhole encounters, creating detailed impact-probability maps.
—Sharmila Kuthunur, Space.com, 13 Oct. 2025
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Daniyal Mueenuddin, New Yorker, 23 Nov. 2025
Spare keys Some digital locks only replace the inside portion of the lock, meaning the outward-facing side is still a standard lock with a keyhole.
—Cody Godwin, USA Today, 16 Nov. 2025
Handgrips on both sides allow those panels to be lifted off keyhole mounts; the mostly mesh front panel uses snaps to attach.
—PC Magazine, 17 Oct. 2025
Using that precise orbital data, Makadia's team simulated spacecraft impacts under a variety of conditions and projected Bennu's potential keyhole encounters, creating detailed impact-probability maps.
—Sharmila Kuthunur, Space.com, 13 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for keyhole
Noun
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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
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Request to see their badge or ID through a window or peephole.—
Evan Moore,
Charlotte Observer,
17 Nov. 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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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
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While lasers aren't the most energy-efficient tools, the beam vaporizes a mere pinhole of ice, meaning the drill uses far less total power than electric heaters.—
Samantha Mathewson,
Space.com,
30 Oct. 2025
Noun
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As of Monday evening, some entrances to the mall had been blocked by chainlink fences.—
Lesley Marin,
CBS News,
13 Jan. 2026
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Other features include an entrance plaza, a new seventy-four-seat forum, an enlarged seventh-floor sky room, and three new elevators, to improve circulation.—
News Desk,
Artforum,
13 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
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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
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The Upside Down is not a mirror dimension, but actually a wormhole/bridge to a separate dystopian world, The Abyss, which breeds all the Demogorgons and Demodogs.—
Carrie Wittmer,
Glamour,
29 Dec. 2025
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Over the course of the season, Tommy and his father slowly tighten their bond, a process punctuated with darkly comic lines that both puncture and reflect Thornton’s and Elliott’s undeniable chemistry and gravitas.—
Michael M. Rosen,
The Washington Examiner,
9 Jan. 2026
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However, that mindset wasn't always the case for Shiffrin, who suffered a violent crash during a giant slalom (GS) Women's World Cup race in November 2024 that resulted in a five-centimeter deep puncture wound to her abdomen, just one millimeter shy of her colon.—
Skyler Caruso,
PEOPLE,
7 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 18 Jan. 2026.
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