keyhole
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Grace has recently had a laparoscopy - keyhole surgery - to remove her endometriosis.
From BBC ● Aug. 23, 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
Dressed in a revealing keyhole dress and towering beehive wig, Carpenter comes to Simon Says for the ambience and the chance to dress in drag.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 28, 2025
Spending his first months in office squeezing Gaetz and his ethics reports through a keyhole wasn’t worth the effort when a friendly neighborhood Pam Bondi was available.
From Slate ● Dec. 4, 2024
He slid the key into the keyhole and turned it.
From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline
You can cover external keyholes and add a flap or brush to your letterbox, or hang a door curtain.
From BBC ● Nov. 19, 2025
These can range from cavities that look like keyholes to compressed circles to wedge shapes, which all fit smaller eyes than could same-sized round sockets.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 11, 2022
More often, though, Anolik cultivates a mood of dishy secret-sharing, in which the novels are less interesting as literary works than as keyholes to the authors’ hidden pasts.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 7, 2021
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
What better place to find tiny keyholes than inside a little house?
From "Fablehaven" by Brandon Mull
