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
Finally I fell asleep and dreamed there was a German soldier battering at the trapdoor.
From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein
"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
We've worked with him in coalitions for nearly 20 years, and we're fully confident that no one would be better at navigating the complexities and trapdoors of the House of Representatives.
From Salon ● Aug. 30, 2022
The museum’s various levels were comprised of vast caverns linked by a network of subterranean streets, tunnels, staircases, elevators, escalators, ladders, slides, trapdoors, and secret passageways.
From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline
