latchkey
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America had its latchkey generation and, along with that, a growing sense that the world is a dangerous place, especially its wilder parts.
From Salon ● Jul. 15, 2026
I was a 1980s latchkey kid, and some of my favorite memories involved coming home from school, choosing something to heat up from the freezer and watching family sitcom reruns.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 2026
"Dinosaurs were more like latchkey kids," Holtz said.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 27, 2026
She mentions: "I was a latchkey kid, so I grew up with a lot of fast food and TV tray meals."
From BBC ● Mar. 4, 2025
Just normal instructions for latchkey kids in Garden Heights.
From "The Hate U Give" by Angie Thomas
Buzzing around them are children who frolic unsupervised far into the night, wearing latchkeys on strings around their necks because there is nobody at home to care for them.
From Time Magazine Archive
If the people inside the house will run the place as we want it run, they may stay inside and we will keep the latchkeys in our pockets.
From The New Freedom A Call For the Emancipation of the Generous Energies of a People by Woodrow Wilson
As they were not on a main road, the door was not kept latched, and so they had no latchkeys.
From A City Schoolgirl And Her Friends by May Baldwin
There are two latchkeys, of which John used to keep one and I the other.
From The Vanishing Man by R. Austin (Richard Austin) Freeman
Watches and latchkeys are attached to a key chain and hidden in the trousers pocket.
From The Complete Bachelor Manners for Men by Walter Germain
