latchkey
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Since I was a latchkey kid, I needed to find something else to do after school.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 14, 2026
"Dinosaurs were more like latchkey kids," Holtz said.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 27, 2026
The exchange arrived in Season1, Episode 2, as Meghan detailed how she grew up as an average American latchkey kid who ate a lot of fast food.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 23, 2025
“Costco’s food court is a distinct, beloved, earnest slice of discount, faster-than-fast food. It’s basically like upscale microwave food. Like a latchkey kid somehow got hold of industrial kitchen equipment,” Thrillist wrote back in 2018.
From Salon ● May 3, 2025
After-school junk food is another fundamental right of the latchkey child.
From "When You Reach Me" by Rebecca Stead
Buzzing around them are children who frolic unsupervised far into the night, wearing latchkeys on strings around their necks because there is nobody at home to care for them.
From Time Magazine Archive
The relatives had astonishingly settled down, with the unmoved passage of time, and more modern emancipation had so far left latchkeys and bachelor apartments behind it that they began to seem almost old-fogeyish.
From The Head of the House of Coombe by Frances Hodgson Burnett
This was the examination of the lock which the dead brothers' latchkeys had fitted.
From Lord John in New York by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson
"Ah, the latchkeys in the dead men's pockets!" he caught me up.
From Lord John in New York by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson
There are two latchkeys, of which John used to keep one and I the other.
From The Vanishing Man by R. Austin (Richard Austin) Freeman
