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Concluding Thought Since a personal guarantee is a pledge of all one's worldly non-exempt assets to back the underlying loan, a personal guarantee is basically a financial noose that one puts their head into and then waits to see if the trapdoor opens.
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Jay Adkisson, Forbes.com, 9 July 2025
When an inlet on Haugen's street fills, a trapdoor opens and dumps the contents into a 20-inch steel tube below the street.
—Arkansas Online, 15 June 2025
These elements might appear to be in opposition to one another, but the band’s capacity to hold them in balance is arguably its defining achievement; all three are crucial, in different ways, to whatever trapdoor occasionally opens up mid-set.
—Amanda Petrusich, New Yorker, 14 Apr. 2025
But instead of using chemicals, public key cryptography uses mathematical puzzles called trapdoor functions.
—John Pavlus, WIRED, 15 Dec. 2024
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Jay Adkisson, Forbes.com, 9 July 2025
When an inlet on Haugen's street fills, a trapdoor opens and dumps the contents into a 20-inch steel tube below the street.
—Arkansas Online, 15 June 2025
These elements might appear to be in opposition to one another, but the band’s capacity to hold them in balance is arguably its defining achievement; all three are crucial, in different ways, to whatever trapdoor occasionally opens up mid-set.
—Amanda Petrusich, New Yorker, 14 Apr. 2025
But instead of using chemicals, public key cryptography uses mathematical puzzles called trapdoor functions.
—John Pavlus, WIRED, 15 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for trapdoor
Noun
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The entrance to the car park even passes under a portcullis and guests’ bags go through an X-ray machine hidden in the rock-face.—
Caroline Reid,
Forbes.com,
8 Sep. 2025
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The prior owner went all out on building a Medieval-style castle, with a moat, a drawbridge and a portcullis.—
Katherine Clarke,
WSJ,
3 Mar. 2022
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In conventional superconductors, these pairs are weakly bound and formed through vibrations in the atomic lattice.—
Aman Tripathi,
Interesting Engineering,
7 Nov. 2025
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All this is wrapped in a soft body made of custom 3D lattice polymer structures and wrapped in machine washable fabric.—
Abhimanyu Ghoshal,
New Atlas,
29 Oct. 2025
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The front of the house features double doors and two floor-to-ceiling windows to bring in as much natural light as possible.—
Kaitlin Gates,
Better Homes & Gardens,
7 Oct. 2025
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Prefab Customizable Tiny Home This cabin-style tiny home is easy to set up and primed to let in gorgeous natural light with a glass double door entrance and a number of windows surrounding the house.—
Merrell Readman,
Travel + Leisure,
4 Oct. 2025
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Matilda, a recent high school graduate, has grown up with a flighty mother and a revolving door of homes.—
Clare Mulroy,
USA Today,
4 Nov. 2025
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The show consisted of Dyrdek welcoming a revolving door of guest panelists to watch and comment on viral clips.—
Joey Nolfi,
Entertainment Weekly,
31 Oct. 2025
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Before her five-wicket haul, Sharma (58) posted her third half-century of the tournament to help India reached the second highest total in a World Cup final after Australia’s 356-5 against England in 2022.—
CNN Money,
CNN Money,
3 Nov. 2025
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In the series opener, New Zealand’s spinners dominated conditions, with Ish Sodhi and Mitchell Santner combining for five wickets to seal the victory.—
Kilty Cleary,
MSNBC Newsweek,
23 Oct. 2025
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Both inquiries pointed to faulty hatch covers as the likely cause.—
Stephen J. Beard,
USA Today,
7 Nov. 2025
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Her offspring hatch the next year.—
Arricca Elin SanSone,
Southern Living,
5 Nov. 2025
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According to Costa, a preliminary investigation found that the victim was delivering mail to the residence when a 5-year-old pit bull forced the storm door open and attacked him.—
Justin Muszynski,
Hartford Courant,
10 June 2025
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Ralph rang the bell and when the door opened, Lester, who is white, fired a handgun at him through the glass of the storm door, per a probable cause statement obtained by PEOPLE.—
Christine Pelisek,
People.com,
19 Feb. 2025
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“Trapdoor.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/trapdoor. Accessed 12 Nov. 2025.
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