open door
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A tavern’s open door to my right revealed a line of patrons perched atop barstools, their backs to the open door, watching a TV showing the eclipse nearing totality.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
"The poor really suffer," said the woman in her 60s, washing vegetables by the open door of her residence as temperatures outside soared up to 38C.
From Barron's ● Aug. 4, 2026
And wow did they waltz right through that open door.
From Slate ● May 23, 2026
Lottery funding awarded to a community group in Coventry will allow it to provide an "open door" to those in need.
From BBC ● Mar. 23, 2026
She would not know, for certain, which realm had met him with an open door.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
The couple keeps an open-door policy to curious neighbors.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 29, 2026
His deployment of troops to fight jihadists in Somalia, and an open-door policy to refugees, won favour from foreign donors, even as they triggered corruption scandals at home.
From Barron's ● Jan. 12, 2026
“You can walk into any of these buildings,” Frost said, explaining the open-door policies at federal agencies he encountered during his first term in Congress under President Joe Biden.
From Salon ● Feb. 14, 2025
The Arensbergs kept an open-door policy for artists and art lovers to bask in nearly 1,000 works from pre-Columbian objects and Modern artists like Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dalí and their favorite, Marcel Duchamp.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 29, 2024
But the open-door Babycakes policy didn’t mean it was okay to skip stuff that the class was doing.
From "A Boy Called Bat" by Elana K. Arnold
