loopholes

plural of loophole

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Noun
  • How To Keep Stink Bugs Out Stink bugs can squeeze into tight spaces between siding, crawl into cracks and crevices in window frames, and enter through open doors, windows, and vents.
    Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 6 Nov. 2025
  • The invasive beetles from Asia would burrow through bark, the females laying eggs in crevices.
    Frank Vaisvilas, jsonline.com, 29 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Those fissures burst into the open last week, when Tucker Carlson conducted a friendly interview with the cheerfully white nationalist streamer Nick Fuentes.
    Max Tani, semafor.com, 3 Nov. 2025
  • The journalist Beth Macy, who in her previous books chronicled the widening fissures in American society by examining the opioid crisis and the aftereffects of globalization, grew up there.
    Alex Kotlowitz, The Atlantic, 29 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The top has a classic V-stitch on the neckline and a wide hem complete with side slits.
    Olivia Young, Travel + Leisure, 4 Nov. 2025
  • Using sharp paring knife, cut four 1 1/2-inch long slits in top of dough (think of a clock for slit placement at 12,3,6,9 positions).
    Cathy Thomas, Oc Register, 13 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • This cleaner even has the ability to transform into a handheld vacuum to reach up high in nooks and crannies.
    Nashia Baker, Architectural Digest, 5 Nov. 2025
  • Now, outside their natural habitat, the beetles turn to the nooks and crannies of modern homes and structures for winter hibernation.
    Maia Pandey, jsonline.com, 29 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Kylie said that her kids’ excitement during this most recent trip has brought her to tears.
    Rachel McRady, PEOPLE, 6 Nov. 2025
  • Her husband and three daughters, standing behind her, wiped tears from their cheeks.
    Sydney Lake, Fortune, 5 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • The European Union is also likely to take a strong role, though internal rifts have emerged within the EU regarding how aggressively to cut its own emissions.
    Andrew Freedman, CNN Money, 4 Nov. 2025
  • Stranger Things season 5 will pick up the story in the fall of 1987 at a time when the military has placed the entire town of Hawkins under military quarantine over the rifts that emerged.
    Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 30 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Scientists tracking humpbacks off the coast of Australia have captured rare footage that shows clutches of the freeloading fish peeling away from their host in what looks like a high-speed game of chicken, just moments before the whale breaches.
    CNN Money, CNN Money, 8 Nov. 2025
  • The producers said the accounts may raise serious questions about conduct on-the-ground and potential breaches of international law.
    Stewart Clarke, Deadline, 7 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • But after the break, the Americans started to find some chinks in the English armour.
    Peter Carline, New York Times, 21 Aug. 2025
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“Loopholes.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/loopholes. Accessed 11 Nov. 2025.

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