keyhole
Example Sentences
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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
“Writing online in 2025 feels like performing keyhole surgery while people scream ‘ROBOT!
From Slate • Aug. 20, 2025
But keyhole surgery found no sign of it, sparking a "vicious cycle" of surgery and Prostap.
From BBC • Jul. 20, 2024
Or through a mesh screen and a keyhole.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 20, 2024
The Aged’s reading reminded me of the classes at Mr. Wopsle’s great-aunt’s, with the pleasanter peculiarity that it seemed to come through a keyhole.
From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
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