peephole
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He then heard a second, "very aggressive knock" but did not see anyone when he looked through the peephole.
From BBC ● May 9, 2024
The door was not equipped with a peephole, so Rehn couldn’t see who was demanding she open up.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 13, 2023
Even something as simple as the view through the peephole in the apartment door sets up one of the film’s best sequences.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 21, 2023
A series of knocks rattled his apartment door one day last fall, and Maksim peered through the peephole to see two soldiers in uniform.
From New York Times ● Jan. 29, 2023
He was a married Spanish lawyer from Granada and said that he wanted to document the murders in Spain through a peephole in his overcoat.
From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García
Leidos told Congress in December it would install peepholes on dorm room doors, limit access to master keys that could open multiple bedrooms, and give teams in the field an extra satellite phone.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 26, 2023
The system consisted of a sliding camera connected to a TV monitor, along with four peepholes to assess people of different heights, a remote control door lock and a two-way microphone.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 1, 2023
A suspended walkway traverses the entire space, with peepholes at a child’s height punctuating its low, translucent walls.
From New York Times ● Dec. 1, 2022
And while they didn't find any peepholes in the buildings they studied, they did find some hidden stairs.
From Salon ● Jul. 13, 2022
There were two peepholes inside the airlock— with yellow eyes pressed to them.
From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut
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