keyhole
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It will, according to Nick Card, involve "keyhole surgery" to open a small trench to investigate "this anomaly".
From BBC ● Nov. 27, 2025
The study focuses on patients undergoing laparoscopic cholecystectomy, the standard keyhole operation to remove the gallbladder.
From BBC ● Nov. 24, 2025
For writers in the 1960s, middle-class infidelity offered a keyhole to deeper social themes—“the relation of individual to collective decadence,” the critic Wilfrid Sheed wrote of Updike’s fiction.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025
Dressed in a revealing keyhole dress and towering beehive wig, Carpenter comes to Simon Says for the ambience and the chance to dress in drag.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 28, 2025
Two steps lead up to a black door that has no knob, just a gold keyhole in the center.
From "Dragons in a Bag" by Zetta Elliott
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You can cover external keyholes and add a flap or brush to your letterbox, or hang a door curtain.
From BBC ● Nov. 19, 2025
So were his creations: silhouetted figures turned sky-filled voids, faces hidden behind apples or under sacks, glimpsed through windows and keyholes.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 30, 2021
There are points in space around our planet known as gravitational keyholes, wherein Earth’s pull on the asteroid sets the errant space rock on an assuredly destructive journey.
From Scientific American ● Nov. 18, 2021
I felt like a boy spying through keyholes on a ferocious world pressing closer.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 20, 2018
We could feel the thrum of old activity sliding along the floorboards, caught in the keyholes of closed doors.
From "The Marrow Thieves" by Cherie Dimaline
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