keyhole
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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
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
It was blocked; the key sat in the keyhole.
From "The Graveyard Book" by Neil Gaiman
You can cover external keyholes and add a flap or brush to your letterbox, or hang a door curtain.
From BBC ● Nov. 19, 2025
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
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
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
