skeleton key
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“Microsoft should not have had a single skeleton key that, when inevitably stolen, could be used to forge access to different customers’ private communications.”
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 11, 2023
Those looking for a felt skeleton key to unlock his various idiosyncrasies aren’t likely to find one.
From New York Times ● Mar. 11, 2023
This word—“predations,” which Shapiro deployed repeatedly—is the skeleton key to this entire debate.
From Slate ● Mar. 2, 2022
The virus uses its spike protein like a skeleton key to ease open cells.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 7, 2021
Brigit riffled inside and retrieved old styluses, a moldy Marveller-bar, and a huge skeleton key imprinted with a diamond and wrapped in thread.
From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton
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