as in aperture
a place in a surface allowing passage into or through a thing
the mouth is a bodily orifice
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Recent Examples of orifice
Don’t let the green mist tinged with white lightning and rotating cosmic orifices fool you, however: Ingesting psychedelic drugs is not recommended before watching this film.
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Katie Rife, IndieWire, 12 Mar. 2025
Cory, who at this point has smoke billowing out of every orifice, flips out on Josh, who’s just betrayed him for the second time.
—Emma Sharpe, Vulture, 9 Oct. 2024
The white exterior peered at me with flat orifices obscured through the mist, barely distinguishable from the dark sky behind it, as though all the world beyond the dome was cut from the same slab, only slightly effaced.
—Jem Aswad, Variety, 1 Nov. 2024
Many older jugs take on the crude appearance of early folk art, with holes in characters that allow liquids to stream out of every conceivable orifice.
—Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 27 Sep. 2024
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Katie Rife, IndieWire, 12 Mar. 2025
Cory, who at this point has smoke billowing out of every orifice, flips out on Josh, who’s just betrayed him for the second time.
—Emma Sharpe, Vulture, 9 Oct. 2024
The white exterior peered at me with flat orifices obscured through the mist, barely distinguishable from the dark sky behind it, as though all the world beyond the dome was cut from the same slab, only slightly effaced.
—Jem Aswad, Variety, 1 Nov. 2024
Many older jugs take on the crude appearance of early folk art, with holes in characters that allow liquids to stream out of every conceivable orifice.
—Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 27 Sep. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for orifice
Noun
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The aperture is widening, bringing creation into the hands of more people.—
Adrian Bridgwater,
Forbes.com,
4 Aug. 2025
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Combined, the ground-to-space radio telescope network formed an interferometer with a baseline (i.e., its virtual aperture) that was five times the diameter of Earth, and this enabled sensational resolving power.—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
1 Aug. 2025
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While the best arms in the bullpen patched together 15 outs Saturday, there was no going to the well a second time Sunday, especially after Montas put the Mets in a 7-1 hole.—
Jerry Beach,
Forbes.com,
4 Aug. 2025
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Fill the body with straw or dry grass, and tie off the arm and leg holes with twine to secure.—
Claire Hoppe Norgaard,
Better Homes & Gardens,
4 Aug. 2025
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“Orifice.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/orifice. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.
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