porthole
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He was a 25-year-old tinkering with self-tanners, but all the intrigue and action seemed to be around the lab next door, with its strange music, flashing lights and tinfoil covering the porthole.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 18, 2026
Inside, the shelves are packed with thousands of items: from an upturned bathtub and dented porthole, to intricately etched glassware and tiny buttons.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2024
Back then, it looked like something out of a science-fiction film: a futuristic tower composed of 140 detachable, single-resident capsules with porthole windows, like a pile of eyes fixed on the city.
From New York Times ● Jan. 17, 2024
The flash assault on the explosion’s observers, including Oppenheimer iconically peering through a bunker’s porthole, had to be lit just so.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 2, 2024
A shaft of dusty cathedral light filtered through the stained-glass porthole that faced the front of the house.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
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"Rogue Wave," Vocabulary from the short story
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"Rogue Wave" by Theodore Taylor
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