latchkey
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I was a 1980s latchkey kid, and some of my favorite memories involved coming home from school, choosing something to heat up from the freezer and watching family sitcom reruns.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 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
It’s a lovely landing for a latchkey kid who grew up eating Jack in the Box, and we’re not mad at it.
From Salon ● Mar. 5, 2025
Just normal instructions for latchkey kids in Garden Heights.
From "The Hate U Give" by Angie Thomas
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
There I was staring distracted into it and scrabbling round in the inside, pulling out handkerchiefs and samples and buttons and latchkeys.
From The Black Eagle Mystery by Bonner, Geraldine
There are two latchkeys, of which John used to keep one and I the other.
From The Vanishing Man by Freeman, R. Austin (Richard Austin)
This was the examination of the lock which the dead brothers' latchkeys had fitted.
From Lord John in New York by Williamson, A. M. (Alice Muriel)
"Anyhow, they have latchkeys," retorted Ruthven Smith, with what for him might be considered gaiety of manner.
From The Second Latchkey by Williamson, A. M. (Alice Muriel)
