back door

Example Sentences

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If the administration focuses on uranium while ignoring the plutonium back door, our diplomatic strategy is dangerously incomplete.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 7, 2026

Gil hustled to the back of the store, opened the back door to the encampment, and called out to the entire population.

From Slate • Mar. 25, 2026

After a December 2015 terrorist attack in San Bernardino, Calif., the Federal Bureau of Investigation tried to compel Apple to build a universal back door into the iPhone.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 2, 2026

Rudra Bahadur Kami returned to Nepal through a back door of Kathmandu airport in a battered coffin after working for more than a decade in Saudi Arabia to feed his family back home.

From Barron's • Feb. 16, 2026

I almost tumbled into Daddy as I ran toward the back door.

From Each Little Bird That Sings by Deborah Wiles