latchkey
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I was a 1980s latchkey kid, and some of my favorite memories involved coming home from school, choosing something to heat up from the freezer and watching family sitcom reruns.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 2026
"Dinosaurs were more like latchkey kids," Holtz said.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 27, 2026
I view that album in particular very much within the realm of a child who grows up in a latchkey situation.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 24, 2025
It’s a lovely landing for a latchkey kid who grew up eating Jack in the Box, and we’re not mad at it.
From Salon ● Mar. 5, 2025
Particularly one with a bike, an innate curiosity, and a latchkey.
From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel
Buzzing around them are children who frolic unsupervised far into the night, wearing latchkeys on strings around their necks because there is nobody at home to care for them.
From Time Magazine Archive
There I was staring distracted into it and scrabbling round in the inside, pulling out handkerchiefs and samples and buttons and latchkeys.
From The Black Eagle Mystery by Geraldine Bonner
As they were not on a main road, the door was not kept latched, and so they had no latchkeys.
From A City Schoolgirl And Her Friends by May Baldwin
"Anyhow, they have latchkeys," retorted Ruthven Smith, with what for him might be considered gaiety of manner.
From The Second Latchkey by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson
But young women and latchkeys are common in London, as common as--as dirt.
From Laid up in Lavender by Stanley J. Weyman
