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noun

a plastic card, similar to a credit card, containing data on an embedded magnetized strip that can electronically unlock a door, activate a machine, etc.

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How to use key card in a sentence

Griswold alleges that an unauthorized person was given a key card and that Peters’s office falsely claimed that that person was a county employee.
An elections supervisor embraced conspiracy theories. Officials say she has become an insider threat.|Emma Brown|September 26, 2021|Washington Post
On Sunday, May 23, the day Griswold says the hard drive was first copied, key cards assigned to Peters, Brown and Wood were swiped to enter the election division area of the clerk’s office, according to security logs.
An elections supervisor embraced conspiracy theories. Officials say she has become an insider threat.|Emma Brown|September 26, 2021|Washington Post
Still, Baerbock and the Greens are likely to hold key cards during coalition negotiations later this year, possibly playing kingmaker.
Annalena Baerbock Wants to Radically Change Germany. She'll Have to Win Voters' Trust First|Ciara Nugent / Dachau, Germany|September 14, 2021|Time
The system also allows key cards to work for staff members so they can enter the building and access calls and send the elevator, Litterst said.
Crews still working to fix electrical system at Washington Monument|Dana Hedgpeth|August 26, 2021|Washington Post

Court documents said that man had a key card for a room on the hotel’s seventh floor, where police said the shootings occurred.
Shootout in downtown D.C. hotel room leaves one man dead|Peter Hermann|July 12, 2021|Washington Post
Getting men to do their share of care and domestic work is a key overlooked strategy in reducing poverty.
How Good Dads Can Change the World|Gary Barker, PhD, Michael Kaufman|January 6, 2015|DAILY BEAST
That could include private financial or personal information—like the credit-card numbers you used to pay for the corrupted Wi-Fi.
How ‘Ethical’ Hotel Chain Marriott Gouges Guests in the Name of Wi-Fi Security|Kyle Chayka|December 31, 2014|DAILY BEAST
By contrast, Solomon can tell us a great deal about what really changed the country—because at key moments, he was there.
The Real Story Behind the Fight for Marriage Equality|E.J. Graff|December 30, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The second lesson is that no one writing before the twentieth century holds a key to our problems.
American Democracy Under Threat for 250 Years|Jedediah Purdy|December 28, 2014|DAILY BEAST
As with so many things, keeping screen time in moderate amounts seems key.
Yes, Your Toddler Can Watch TV: The New Rules for Screen Time|Russell Saunders|December 26, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Mr. Jones swung round a large iron key he held in his hand, and light dawned upon him.
Elster's Folly|Mrs. Henry Wood
Mr. Collingwood, taking the key from his mother, locked the little door in the boarding, after them.
The Boarded-Up House|Augusta Huiell Seaman
The card table profitably occupies some six to eight hours daily of these old fellows' attention.
The Pit Town Coronet, Volume I (of 3)|Charles James Wills
About her neck was hung a covered basket and a door-key; and Davy at once concluded that she was Sindbad's house-keeper.
Davy and The Goblin|Charles E. Carryl
In most club card-rooms smoking is not permitted, but at the Pandemonium it is the fashion to smoke everywhere.
The Pit Town Coronet, Volume I (of 3)|Charles James Wills