hatch
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It also drives the length of the incubation period: the warmer the sand, the sooner the eggs typically hatch.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026
The crew will open the hatch and enter the lander, where they will spend two days checking out its systems.
From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2026
The CrossWave’s trap is easily accessed through a hatch in the aft deck—or, it would have been, but for the large icebox strapped to the tubular mounting bracket.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026
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
At one end of the cove, an enormous pileup of wreckage from years of storms provided a steady supply of firewood: block and tackle, hatch gratings, spars, masts, lockers.
From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong
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