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keyhole

[kee-hohl] / ˈkiˌhoʊl /




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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

Ms Brewster said that people can wait up to eight years for a diagnosis as it required a laparoscopy, a keyhole surgery procedure, to confirm the condition.

From BBC • Oct. 2, 2025

“Writing online in 2025 feels like performing keyhole surgery while people scream ‘ROBOT!

From Slate • Aug. 20, 2025

Or through a mesh screen and a keyhole.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 20, 2024

In the center of the gate was a copper-plated lock with a keyhole.

From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline




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