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
Here’s the pitch: We zoom in on an AI-generated deepfake of Iron Eyes Cody inside the International Space Station, staring through a porthole window at the Earth and its swirling trash-belt.
From Salon • Oct. 24, 2023
Shahzada had a Nikon camera, eager to capture the view of the seafloor through Titan’s single porthole.
From New York Times • Jul. 2, 2023
Immediately, the screen slides away to reveal a porthole looking onto underwater depths.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
Vocabulary lists containing porthole
"Rogue Wave," Vocabulary from the short story
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"Rogue Wave" by Theodore Taylor
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