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Recent Examples of trapdoor
Scientists dug around the trapdoor to catch the bristly animal — and discovered a new species.
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Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 27 May 2025
Instead, Markiewicz said, the team decided to keep the quest a little more grounded, eschewing magic altogether and having Geralt dropped through a trapdoor into a pit of spiders.
—Oliver Brandt, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 May 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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Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 27 May 2025
Instead, Markiewicz said, the team decided to keep the quest a little more grounded, eschewing magic altogether and having Geralt dropped through a trapdoor into a pit of spiders.
—Oliver Brandt, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 May 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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Instead of destroying the molecules (which is what most people thought would happen), the beam caused the hydrogens to detach and the carbons to link up, thereby slowly building up a diamond lattice.—
Christopher McFadden,
Interesting Engineering,
7 Sep. 2025
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For decades, physicists have attempted to do so by approximating the quantum field as a discrete lattice of points.—
Shalma Wegsman,
Quanta Magazine,
5 Sep. 2025
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Throw open the double doors leading to the terrace, and the view from the bed is of the outdoor plunge pool and the Suyian Conservancy.—
Rebekah Peppler,
Travel + Leisure,
19 Sep. 2025
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Behind the set of double doors protecting the visiting locker room, the silence was so noticeable that conversations among players, owners and coaches could be nearly whispered — until Chris defensive star Chris Jones interrupted the tranquility.—
Sam McDowell,
Kansas City Star,
12 Sep. 2025
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Brown and Smith have built their reputations for making defenders pay in man coverage, and Philadelphia’s revolving door of play-callers has each tried to create one-on-one matchups for them.—
Brooks Kubena,
New York Times,
24 Sep. 2025
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Revolving door of prime ministers Some investors worry that Japan’s revolving door of prime ministers could spook markets, but Neuberger Berman’s Okamura isn’t convinced.—
Lee Ying Shan,
CNBC,
23 Sep. 2025
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By the 20th over, Pakistan lost six wickets and the following overs continued to collapse the remaining order.—
Paras J. Haji,
Forbes.com,
13 Aug. 2025
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In The Hundred, he’s taken six wickets in five games for Trent Rockets at an average of just 13.33.—
Sukhman Singh,
New York Times,
9 Aug. 2025
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But despite the sentiment that all is well in the economy, investors are flocking to the safe-haven asset of gold—usually a sign that traders are battening down the hatches.—
Eleanor Pringle,
Fortune,
2 Oct. 2025
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The group set out in the park to investigate chittering sounds that turned out to be a couple of white-breasted nut hatches.—
Karl Schneider,
IndyStar,
22 Sep. 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 6 Oct. 2025.
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