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You can cover external keyholes and add a flap or brush to your letterbox, or hang a door curtain.

From BBC • Nov. 19, 2025

More often, though, Anolik cultivates a mood of dishy secret-sharing, in which the novels are less interesting as literary works than as keyholes to the authors’ hidden pasts.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 7, 2021

There are points in space around our planet known as gravitational keyholes, wherein Earth’s pull on the asteroid sets the errant space rock on an assuredly destructive journey.

From Scientific American • Nov. 18, 2021

Several split in the middle, leaving gaping shapes that framed the disaster like keyholes into a broken world.

From New York Times • May 1, 2020

Some of the drawers had keyholes, but they were already unlocked, and the keys did not fit.

From "Fablehaven" by Brandon Mull