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
His mother’s sister and brother-in-law helped care for them when they could, but he likened himself to a latchkey kid because of the amount of time he and his sister spent alone.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 15, 2026
She mentions: "I was a latchkey kid, so I grew up with a lot of fast food and TV tray meals."
From BBC ● Mar. 4, 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
Watches and latchkeys are attached to a key chain and hidden in the trousers pocket.
From The Complete Bachelor Manners for Men by Walter Germain
"Anyhow, they have latchkeys," retorted Ruthven Smith, with what for him might be considered gaiety of manner.
From The Second Latchkey by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson
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 Geraldine Bonner
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
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