keyhole
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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
But her pregnancy was too far advanced to allow surgeons to perform standard keyhole surgery.
From BBC ● Apr. 24, 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
Harry pressed his ear still more closely against the keyhole...
From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling
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
They were designed for winter wear, when treacherous drafts came down chimneys and insidious currents of deadly cold found their way through keyholes.
From "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin
