latchkey
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Since I was a latchkey kid, I needed to find something else to do after school.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 14, 2026
"Dinosaurs were more like latchkey kids," Holtz said.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 27, 2026
His mother’s sister and brother-in-law helped care for them when they could, but he likened himself to a latchkey kid because of the amount of time he and his sister spent alone.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 15, 2026
“Costco’s food court is a distinct, beloved, earnest slice of discount, faster-than-fast food. It’s basically like upscale microwave food. Like a latchkey kid somehow got hold of industrial kitchen equipment,” Thrillist wrote back in 2018.
From Salon ● May 3, 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
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
"Ah, the latchkeys in the dead men's pockets!" he caught me up.
From Lord John in New York by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson
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
