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Recent Examples of trapdoor
The problem is that if a deal goes bad, then the trapdoor does indeed fall out and the financial breaking of the back and subsequent strangulation does occur.
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Jay Adkisson, Forbes.com, 7 Apr. 2025
Despite knowing of the dangers, Mendez, a native of the Dominican Republic, and her conspirators stored fentanyl and press machines beneath trapdoors under play mats and cribs, according to court records.
—Molly Crane-Newman, New York Daily News, 3 Mar. 2025
Surprisingly, Martin is not the first artist to fall through a trapdoor in recent weeks.
—Caroline Thayer, Fox News, 4 Nov. 2024
His vision of Treehouse Town is brimming with imaginative contraptions, like crow’s nests for viewing, air trams, rope swings, trapdoors and sycamore slides.
—Megan Gambino, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Dec. 2024
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Jay Adkisson, Forbes.com, 7 Apr. 2025
Despite knowing of the dangers, Mendez, a native of the Dominican Republic, and her conspirators stored fentanyl and press machines beneath trapdoors under play mats and cribs, according to court records.
—Molly Crane-Newman, New York Daily News, 3 Mar. 2025
Surprisingly, Martin is not the first artist to fall through a trapdoor in recent weeks.
—Caroline Thayer, Fox News, 4 Nov. 2024
His vision of Treehouse Town is brimming with imaginative contraptions, like crow’s nests for viewing, air trams, rope swings, trapdoors and sycamore slides.
—Megan Gambino, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for trapdoor
Noun
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The prior owner went all out on building a Medieval-style castle, with a moat, a drawbridge and a portcullis.—
Katherine Clarke,
WSJ,
3 Mar. 2022
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Medieval amenities include a moat, two watchtowers and two gates, a drawbridge, an underground cave (complete with a Jacuzzi!), trap doors, and a genuine portcullis (a metal-and-wood gate typically seen in medieval fortresses).—
Mary Elizabeth Andriotis,
House Beautiful,
20 Jan. 2022
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Each about the size of a large table, not counting their broad solar arrays, the satellites operate in a grid to form a lattice across nearly all of the planet, excluding the poles.—
Josh Dinner,
Space.com,
7 May 2025
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Even with leaders' interest in lattices or rock-climbing metaphors, the research field remains stuck in vertical models.—
Tonushree Mondal,
Forbes.com,
14 May 2025
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The entrance is made up of large wooden double doors, which open onto the living room.—
Adam Williams
May 19,
New Atlas,
19 May 2025
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Sizes go up from here to accommodate those with large front doors or double doors.—
Moriah Mason,
Southern Living,
28 Jan. 2025
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Business-government entanglements, revolving doors, and public-private partnerships have been a bipartisan tradition for decades and should be addressed in total.—
Clyde Wayne Crews Jr,
Forbes.com,
12 May 2025
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Kelli is brash and benignly ostentatious with her cackling laugh and revolving door of unpredictable fashions (my jaw dropped at her look for Coyote Ugly), another indicator of a great parody Housewife.—
Ile-Ife Okantah,
Vulture,
28 Apr. 2025
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The last time the Chevrons came to play the long format in the United Kingdom, Jimmy Anderson took five wickets on debut as a callow 20-year-old with peroxide streaks.—
Tim Ellis,
Forbes.com,
21 May 2025
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The Johnnies, notoriously secretive about their uniforms, made their entrance costumed as the tournament's grass croquet courts, complete with mini wickets, mallets, balls and clips.—
Tyrone Turner,
NPR,
12 Apr. 2025
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The two hatch a convoluted getaway plan that involves stealing a briefcase full of money.—
James Factora,
Them.,
22 May 2025
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An official with Smit Salvage, which is part of the salvage team led by TMC Marine, told CNN that the hatches appear open, meaning the crew may not have battened them down as the storm approached.—
Barbie Latza Nadeau,
CNN Money,
20 May 2025
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Ralph rang the bell and when the door opened, Lester, who is white, fired a handgun at him through the glass of the storm door, per a probable cause statement obtained by PEOPLE.—
Christine Pelisek,
People.com,
19 Feb. 2025
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The storm door is wide-open with a very active storm track forecast to impact Northern California.—
Benedict Cosgrove,
Newsweek,
20 Dec. 2024
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“Trapdoor.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/trapdoor. Accessed 4 Jun. 2025.
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