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

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

But her pregnancy was too far advanced to allow surgeons to perform standard keyhole surgery.

From BBC • Apr. 24, 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

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

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