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back door

NOUN
back entrance
Synonyms
STRONGEST
side door
WEAK
back entrance back stairs back way escape hatch indirect access means of entry postern postern door secret exit secretive or illicit method trap door trapdoor wormhole

Example Sentences

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If the administration focuses on uranium while ignoring the plutonium back door, our diplomatic strategy is dangerously incomplete.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 7, 2026

Gil hustled to the back of the store, opened the back door to the encampment, and called out to the entire population.

From Slate • Mar. 25, 2026

Rudra Bahadur Kami returned to Nepal through a back door of Kathmandu airport in a battered coffin after working for more than a decade in Saudi Arabia to feed his family back home.

From Barron's • Feb. 16, 2026

Lunch is the less-expensive back door into Paris’s acclaimed restaurants.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 14, 2026

He opened the back door of the limo and began spreading blankets everywhere.

From "The School for Whatnots" by Margaret Peterson Haddix