porthole
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He was a 25-year-old tinkering with self-tanners, but all the intrigue and action seemed to be around the lab next door, with its strange music, flashing lights and tinfoil covering the porthole.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 18, 2026
The scan shows new close-up details, including a porthole that was most likely smashed by the iceberg.
From BBC • Apr. 8, 2025
Back then, it looked like something out of a science-fiction film: a futuristic tower composed of 140 detachable, single-resident capsules with porthole windows, like a pile of eyes fixed on the city.
From New York Times • Jan. 17, 2024
The flash assault on the explosion’s observers, including Oppenheimer iconically peering through a bunker’s porthole, had to be lit just so.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 2, 2024
Boaz crept up to the porthole, where he could see the apparently full seats.
From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny
Vocabulary lists containing porthole
"Rogue Wave," Vocabulary from the short story
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"Rogue Wave" by Theodore Taylor
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