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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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
As Kumar planted himself in his cubbyhole, Madhu, a volunteer who addressed him as “boss,” called for advice on whether a village temple should install surveillance cameras.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 17, 2022
And when you sneeze in one cubbyhole, a stranger in another calls out, “Bless you.”
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 1, 2022
She made a cubbyhole in some bamboo in her back garden and read The Secret Garden.
From BBC ● Aug. 2, 2019
After he'd retreated into Mr. Carver's cubbyhole, Ross Wilcox and Gary Drake got busy whispering round the hard kids and the in-between kids.
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
Report cards weren’t handed out; they were slotted into our personal cubbyholes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
She’d also like to see childcare assistance and facilities become available to female athletes so they don’t have to search for bathrooms or cubbyholes to tend to their children during competitions.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2022
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
“It suggests a certain working of the mind in which you have 20 active cubbyholes and they are all fully lit,” Olbermann said.
From New York Times ● Dec. 22, 2017
I crouched behind the counter and inspected a half wall of cubbyholes.
From "The Marrow Thieves" by Cherie Dimaline
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