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keyhole

[kee-hohl] / ˈkiˌhoʊl /




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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

A nurse has become the first person in the UK to undergo an operation that saw a tumour removed through her eye socket using keyhole surgery.

From BBC • Jan. 20, 2025

Or through a mesh screen and a keyhole.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 20, 2024

It’s like a bear slipped in through the keyhole.

From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman




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