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
A nurse has become the first person in the UK to undergo an operation that saw a tumour removed through her eye socket using keyhole surgery.
From BBC ● Jan. 20, 2025
Above the ring was a metal plate with a keyhole.
From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan
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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
Each copper plate had a hole in its center, and though they were not shaped in the conventional way, they were undoubtedly keyholes.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
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