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keyhole

[kee-hohl] / ˈkiˌhoʊl /




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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

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

He had four tiny scars in his eye where healthy copies of the gene were injected into the retina at the back of the eye through keyhole surgery.

From BBC Feb. 20, 2025

Spending his first months in office squeezing Gaetz and his ethics reports through a keyhole wasn’t worth the effort when a friendly neighborhood Pam Bondi was available.

From Slate Dec. 4, 2024

But she lowered herself until her mouth was beside the large 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

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

I felt like a boy spying through keyholes on a ferocious world pressing closer.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 20, 2018

He passed the vault, trailing his hand along the steel spokes, the keyholes like compass roses, and he pressed his ear to the door, as if he could hear the rustling of pages inside.

From "The Reader" by Traci Chee




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