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passports

noun

plural of passport
1
as in keys
something that allows someone to achieve a desired goal meeting that movie director could be your passport to a big acting career

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2
as in accessions
the means or right of entering or participating in to its followers, the cult seemed like their passport to heaven

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Recent Examples of passports Players are not allowed to transfer internationally before 18, but players with EU passports have always been permitted to move between EU countries from 16-18 because of an exception. — Jordan Campbell, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2026 IDScan provides technology that businesses use to scan and verify driver's licenses, passports and other forms of identification. — Roxanne Downer, USA Today, 11 Sep. 2026 The brothers also offered to surrender their passports and to be monitored by GPS and home inspections if they're released. — Bill Chappell, NPR, 9 Sep. 2026 Prosecutors have cited years of social media posts in which the brothers boasted about their wealth and multiple passports, arguing the posts demonstrated an ability to evade authorities if released. — Emma Tucker, CNN Money, 9 Sep. 2026 As deputies prepared to have the vehicle towed, one found a small black pouch containing passports and a Social Security card. — Dale Ellis, Arkansas Online, 8 Sep. 2026 Voting rights advocates argue that requirements to present birth certificates or passports in order to register to vote is intended to make voting more difficult, to dissuade some people from voting at all. — Todd Spangler, Freep.com, 4 Sep. 2026 Korean nationals who need to stay in Haiti are required to obtain special permission for exceptional use of their passports, the ministry said. — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 3 Sep. 2026 Digital passports are now accessible directly on Tod’s website, giving shoppers information on materials, production processes, locations and company certifications. — Evan Clark, Footwear News, 28 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for passports
  1. keys
  2. accessions
  3. tickets
  4. doors
  5. gateways
  6. entries
  7. accesses
  8. entrances
Noun
  • The industry remains near the beginning of its cycle, and the same principles—control over keys, and the routing of decisions—apply well beyond custody, including the issuance of tokenized instruments.
    — Sergey Stopnevich, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2026
  • The ula fala is a traditional Samoan necklace made from dried parts, called keys, of the tropical pandanus plant that are polished then strung into a necklace.
    — Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 14 Sep. 2026
Definition of keys
Noun
  • Now, not in pots as houseplants but growing in the ground on prominent public display, there are more than 200 accessions representing 46 species.
    — The New York Times News Service Syndicate, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Oct. 2025
Definition of accessions
Noun
  • School officials pointed out there were 975 tickets sold, and the temperatures were in the high 60s with no rain.
    — Jeff Vorva, Chicago Tribune, 19 Sep. 2026
  • As of Friday, tickets were still available for Saturday's show, and his website did not list any replacement acts.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 19 Sep. 2026
Definition of tickets
Noun
  • Add Weather Stripping Add weather stripping around doors and windows to help fill in gaps that beetles can slip through.
    — Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 18 Sep. 2026
  • Officials advised residents in zones nearby to shelter-in-place until further notice, with windows and doors closed and air conditioning systems turned off.
    — Blanca Begert, Los Angeles Times, 18 Sep. 2026
Definition of doors
Noun
  • Many newcomers are bypassing traditional gateways for smaller cities and suburbs, drawn to emerging enclaves from Cincinnati and Knoxville to Utah’s booming communities, even as Florida remains the top destination for some nationalities.
    — Will Jarrett, Los Angeles Times, 17 Sep. 2026
  • The safety protections established for the central business district should also be available to historic residential communities, neighborhood gateways, school approaches and park corridors when comparable safety problems exist.
    — Lawrence Bell, Baltimore Sun, 15 Sep. 2026
Definition of gateways
Noun
  • This year, the video contest received 347 entries from 40 countries, judged by a panel composed of specialists in science and advanced light microscopy.
    — Molly Finlay, CNN Money, 16 Sep. 2026
  • Some of the entries this year have been knocking on the Hall door for years, including Tickle Me Elmo, the Pokémon Trading Card Game and Mahjong.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 16 Sep. 2026
Definition of entries
Noun
  • Latency becomes the new battleground The researchers say accesses that would normally leave a rack and travel through a conventional network could instead follow a more predictable path.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 8 Sep. 2026
  • This discipline involves architecting the entire information ecosystem an AI agent accesses—codebase structure, team standards, documentation and institutional knowledge (the unwritten rules and patterns teams develop over time).
    — Kevin Cushnie, Forbes.com, 23 Feb. 2026
Definition of accesses
Noun
  • Many of the rooms have private entrances and are dotted around a courtyard.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 Sep. 2026
  • With seven windows, two main entrances on Via Montenapoleone and one in the courtyard, the store in the stately neoclassical building dating back to the late 17th century spans over three levels.
    — Luisa Zargani, Footwear News, 16 Sep. 2026
Definition of entrances

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“Passports.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/passports. Accessed 22 Sep. 2026.

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