cubbyhole
Americannoun
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a small enclosed space or room
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any small compartment, such as a pigeonhole
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Origin of cubbyhole
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One classmate decided it’d be fun to raid my cubbyhole, fish out my report card, read it aloud.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
They were looking for the source of a leak in the roof, but tucked inside a cubbyhole were the "skeletal remains", Mr Glady said.
From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2024
She was one of just two women on Brzezinski’s staff and occupied a windowless cubbyhole in the West Wing, but Dr. Albright relished her proximity to power.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 23, 2022
More than a half-dozen snowboards hang in the entryway over a cubbyhole stuffed with boots.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 3, 2022
It was my plot of earth, my cubbyhole.
From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd
Report cards weren’t handed out; they were slotted into our personal cubbyholes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
“Everybody came out of their cubbyholes to watch her,” said Ms. Mitchell, who recalled watching the first broadcast in the newsroom.
From New York Times ● Jan. 22, 2024
By contrast, “Untitled” from 1998 is a grid of black cubbyholes, each one containing a found treasure: a baby doll’s head, a Japanese daruma doll, a plastic apple, the head of the Red Power Ranger.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2023
Different passes allow different levels of access to halls, bars, committee rooms and cubbyholes within the Victorian-age premises.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 6, 2021
Long loops and strands of yarn dangled out of the cubbyholes, and the browns and grays and purples were mixed in with the ochres and olive greens and dark blues.
From "The City of Ember" by Jeanne DuPrau
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