keyhole
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Doctors partially exposed his mother's womb and then gently pushed his organs back inside his abdomen using keyhole surgery.
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026
For writers in the 1960s, middle-class infidelity offered a keyhole to deeper social themes—“the relation of individual to collective decadence,” the critic Wilfrid Sheed wrote of Updike’s fiction.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025
“Writing online in 2025 feels like performing keyhole surgery while people scream ‘ROBOT!
From Slate ● Aug. 20, 2025
Mr Tibbot said carrying out keyhole surgery on Stacey "would have been almost impossible, or would have taken the whole day of operating".
From BBC ● May 1, 2025
Sometimes I’d be able to see through the keyhole or a crack in the door, and she’d be sitting at the table, crying.
From "The Pigman" by Paul Zindel
You can cover external keyholes and add a flap or brush to your letterbox, or hang a door curtain.
From BBC ● Nov. 19, 2025
So were his creations: silhouetted figures turned sky-filled voids, faces hidden behind apples or under sacks, glimpsed through windows and keyholes.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 30, 2021
There are points in space around our planet known as gravitational keyholes, wherein Earth’s pull on the asteroid sets the errant space rock on an assuredly destructive journey.
From Scientific American ● Nov. 18, 2021
I felt like a boy spying through keyholes on a ferocious world pressing closer.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 20, 2018
The vault had a five-spoke wheel that controlled the dead bolts and two keyholes on either side of the handle.
From "The Reader" by Traci Chee
