trapdoor
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Their film is a trapdoor, a hidden escape hatch that only two people willing to pause and look around amid all of the chaos could see.
From Salon ● Sep. 7, 2026
The park, which closed in late December, contains games and rides that reference past MrBeast videos, such as a trapdoor tower and catapults.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 3, 2026
Sunderland, like Newcastle before them, eventually slipped through the relegation trapdoor in 2017, and spent eight years outside the top flight.
From BBC ● Dec. 14, 2025
Scientists at the University of California, Davis report the discovery of a previously unrecognized trapdoor spider that lives in California's coastal sand dunes.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 2, 2025
“You go down first. I’ll pull the trapdoor after me,” he said.
From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman
"Are we now asking inspectors to pry up the floorboards and look for trapdoors?" he asked.
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2023
There is action as well, involving intricate stagecraft like revolving platforms and trapdoors.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 2, 2023
They’ve linked their albums together too, creating a nebulous realm called the Gizzverse — a place filled with people vultures, rattlesnakes, tetrachromats, trapdoors, gators, fishies, garden goblins and various other strange creatures and out-of-body experiences.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2022
This adaptation of "Station Eleven" contains so many trapdoors and routes by which it could have gone astray.
From Salon ● Dec. 17, 2021
My brain is an unfamiliar room and trapdoors are everywhere.
From "Everything, Everything" by Nicola Yoon
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