keyhole
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Using keyhole surgery, Theo's organs were then gently pushed back inside his abdomen, which was stitched closed.
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026
Stoppard announced himself with “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead,” an absurdist lark that views “Hamlet” from the keyhole perspective of two courtiers jockeying for position in the new regime.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 30, 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
“I know you are,” Kira said through the keyhole.
From "Gathering Blue" by Lois Lowry
You can cover external keyholes and add a flap or brush to your letterbox, or hang a door curtain.
From BBC ● Nov. 19, 2025
These can range from cavities that look like keyholes to compressed circles to wedge shapes, which all fit smaller eyes than could same-sized round sockets.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 11, 2022
Sharpe shoots some scenes as keyholes in a black screen, as if we’re watching a play.
From New York Times ● Dec. 5, 2021
Entering the Moongate Garden requires walking through one of two nine-foot-tall pink granite “moongates,” which resemble keyholes to another world.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 24, 2019
Vacated lockers were scrubbed, mattresses fumigated, brass coat hooks, doorknobs and keyholes were buffed.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
