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Recent Examples of keyhole
The velvet piece featured a sequined collar and coordinating trim around a keyhole cutout at the front.
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Maggie Clancy, Footwear News, 17 Feb. 2026
Bunnie Xo sizzled in a lace red corset dress with a cleavage-baring keyhole cutout and bell sleeves that hit the floor.
—Michelle Lee, PEOPLE, 2 Feb. 2026
Doors are forever being left ajar; every keyhole is an invitation to snoop.
—Justin Chang, New Yorker, 20 Nov. 2025
This sleek size-inclusive dress can accommodate big busts with ease, thanks to the keyhole neckline and looser fit at the bust.
—Bianca Kratky, Glamour, 25 Sep. 2025
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Maggie Clancy, Footwear News, 17 Feb. 2026
Bunnie Xo sizzled in a lace red corset dress with a cleavage-baring keyhole cutout and bell sleeves that hit the floor.
—Michelle Lee, PEOPLE, 2 Feb. 2026
Doors are forever being left ajar; every keyhole is an invitation to snoop.
—Justin Chang, New Yorker, 20 Nov. 2025
This sleek size-inclusive dress can accommodate big busts with ease, thanks to the keyhole neckline and looser fit at the bust.
—Bianca Kratky, Glamour, 25 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for keyhole
Noun
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After flipping on the light in the small vestibule, Sister Proba looked through the peephole.—
Danielle Parker,
CBS News,
15 Feb. 2026
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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
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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And the light shows her pinhole eyes no mercy.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
23 Feb. 2026
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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
Noun
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The food and drink As with most of the smaller Parisian hotels, all the food and drink action happens in the same place—the property’s entrance is designed to be a comfortable lounge, bar, and breakfast area.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
24 Feb. 2026
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Worshippers arriving for the day's first prayers found the damage and a smoldering fire that spewed black smoke across the entrance of the Abu Bakr Al-Siddiq Mosque in the town of Tell, near Nablus, and stained the ornate doorway.—
AREF TUFAHA,
Arkansas Online,
24 Feb. 2026
Noun
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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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Astronaut John Crichton falls into a wormhole and emerges in a remote galaxy where he's rescued by a sentient spaceship named Moya and its colorful convict crew.—
Jeff Spry,
Space.com,
14 Feb. 2026
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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
Noun
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The puncture was a bullet hole, a source with knowledge of the situation told NBC News.—
Jay Blackman,
NBC news,
25 Feb. 2026
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And in Season 11, before the game even started, castaways hiked 11 miles through the Guatemalan jungle—a 24-hour trek in 100-degree heat that resulted in one collapse, one biceps tear, one vomiting spell, and one puncture wound from a poisonous tree barb.—
Kristen Geil,
Outside,
24 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Small craft should exercise caution near inlets due to incoming long-period swells.—
Garfield Hylton,
The Orlando Sentinel,
18 Feb. 2026
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Since 1957, believers and non-believers alike have sought refuge at the 10-acre estate, with meandering woodland paths and rocky gardens nestled along a quiet, lake-like inlet of Long Island Sound.—
Hannah Towey,
Condé Nast Traveler,
15 Feb. 2026
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“Keyhole.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/keyhole. Accessed 28 Feb. 2026.
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