portal
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Drawing on this online obsession, the plot of “Backrooms” follows Chiwetel Ejiofor, a furniture store owner who finds a secret portal that leads him to an endless rabbit hole of indistinguishable rooms.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 3, 2026
Over at GlaxoSmithKline, a partnership with Korea’s ABL Bio will use the receptor for the insulinlike growth factor as a portal for neurology drugs.
From Barron's • Jun. 3, 2026
After he discovers a wall in the store’s basement serves as a portal to the creepy rooms and he tells her about them, she follows him in.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 28, 2026
"If this was a test portal, why was this information uploaded on it?"
From BBC • May 28, 2026
The lawn, the grounds were trodden and waste: the portal yawned void.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
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