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The 10-year-old stood outside the only home he’d ever known — a home he could traverse in total darkness, whose every floorboard and door jamb he knew like the back of his hand.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 28, 2025

Gooch, a 37-year-old resident of Leavenworth, Kansas, about 25 miles northwest of Union Station, related his experiences in an Associated Press interview outside his apartment, his crutches leaning against the door jamb behind him.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 16, 2024

On Thursday, Arredondo told The Texas Tribune that the delay occurred because the only entryway into the school was blocked by a locked door with a steel jamb.

From Salon ● Jun. 10, 2022

If there are gaps where the window sash or door closes against the jamb, it could be time to replace the weather stripping.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 16, 2022

I jamb my thumb into the button, but can’t push hard enough.

From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera

Lacking an automated connection to a monitoring service, she connects exposed wires running along jambs to a light switch.

From Salon ● Dec. 6, 2023

“I started with a little campfire and it had eyes and it was really amorphous, like going through door jambs and keyholes” he said.

From New York Times ● Jun. 20, 2023

You can typically make the height of the door’s rough opening just one-quarter inch longer than the factory length of the door jambs.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 2, 2021

Even if it means his leaving scratch marks on the chamber’s door jambs on the way out.

From Washington Times ● Apr. 13, 2021

Bulging tongues of ice had broken doors off their hinges, and through their splintered jambs I could see evidence of a raid: kicked- over furniture, drawers torn open, snows of paper on the floor.

From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs