Thesaurus results for OPEN SESAMES

open sesames

noun

plural of open sesame

as in keys

something that allows someone to achieve a desired goal it turned out that a simple "please" was the open sesame for charming the hotel manager into giving us a room with a better view

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There’s also the technical and organizational overhead of maintaining and supporting old versions and their associated keys indefinitely.

— Scharon Harding, ArsTechnica, 21 July 2026
Being an 80% keyboard, the MQ80 has the exact same number as tenkeyless, but IQUNIX compresses the layout, shifting the arrow keys, delete, home, end, page up and page down and others to the right.

— Gieson Cacho, Mercury News, 21 July 2026

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This week in Atlanta, head to Piedmont Park for an ice cream and wellness festival, get tickets to a summer picnic pop-up from Smoking Tiger Club and listen to live jazz music at Little Tart After Dark.

— Olivia Wakim, AJC.com, 21 July 2026
Portugal has laws restricting the resale of tickets, and some within the Spanish government have tried to legislate a crackdown.

— Henry Bushnell, New York Times, 21 July 2026

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London, meanwhile, remains one of fashion’s most influential commercial gateways.

— Kate Hardcastle, Forbes.com, 17 July 2026
Founders traditionally had to integrate various Electronic Medical Records (EMRs), negotiate with nationwide pharmacy fulfillment centers, build custom payment gateways, and establish strict HIPAA compliance.

— Nia Bowers, USA Today, 2 July 2026

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In 2012, after China issued passports containing a map depicting Aksai Chin and Arunachal Pradesh as its territory, the Indian embassy in Beijing responded by stamping visas for Chinese nationals with a map showing the two regions as part of India.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 22 July 2026
The index, which monitors the travel freedoms offered by passports around the world based on the number of destinations their holders can visit visa-free or visa-on-demand, shows that US travel documents are no longer among the most powerful.

— Maureen O'Hare, CNN Money, 21 July 2026

Definition of passports

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