ignition key
Britishnoun
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“If you had a car in a garage for 30 to 50 years and one day you insert the ignition key, how confident are you that it will start?” he asked.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 5, 2023
The blood tests showed that the drink had increased his levels of a molecule that is thought to work like an ignition key to turn on mechanisms that prevent disease.
From New York Times ● Mar. 9, 2018
The seat belt, ignition key and gear shift are all on the wrong side.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 30, 2017
The Millennium Falcon is back, although one character dismisses it as “garbage,” and you still don’t need an ignition key to start it.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 18, 2015
And then my serious trouble began, for though the tractor was in its usual place the ignition key was gone.
From "Z for Zachariah" by Robert C. O’Brien
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