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hatchway

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as in hatch

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Recent Examples of hatchway The company earned widespread recognition as the gold standard for metal hatchway doors and opened offices in Canada and the UK during the 1980s. — Pamela McLoughlin, Hartford Courant, 14 May 2026 Sailors who got snatched up were transported in the holds of small ships known as tenders, which resembled floating jails, with gratings bolted over the hatchways and marines standing guard with muskets and bayonets. — David Grann, The New Yorker, 28 Feb. 2023 Astronomer Mark Aaronson, 36, was killed in 1987 when a design flaw allowed the 150-ton revolving dome of the Kitt Peak Observatory in Arizona to continue rotating after it had been switched off, catching and crushing Aaronson in a hatchway. — Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Oct. 2022 Working swiftly in the frigid water, divers inserted miniature ROVs through openings in the main hatchway and skylights in the crew’s cabins, officers’ mess, and captain’s stateroom. — Roff Smith, National Geographic, 28 Aug. 2019

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The electric hatch employs a 400-V architecture instead of the 800-V system found on the IONIQ 5, helping keep the price down.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 24 Aug. 2026
Authorities said in a criminal complaint that Royce Moser stabbed Heintz with a kitchen knife inside her Jeep, then dragged her into the back hatch and drove the vehicle to his mother's house.

— Jeanine Santucci, USA Today, 22 Aug. 2026

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As the massive steel sallyport doors of the Clark County Detention Center fold open, Davis is taken one block from his cell to the courthouse.

— Andy Rose, CNN Money, 22 Aug. 2026
Terra-cotta flooring leads you to the living room where French doors open up directly to the water.

— Megan Rose Murray, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Aug. 2026

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The Cohen Building originally housed the Social Security Administration, an important piece of the New Deal legacy, and contains frescoes painted in the 1940s by famed artist Seymour Fogel on the entrance lobby walls, Okin said.

— Bill Hutchinson, ABC News, 20 Aug. 2026
Trending Video The former layout, typical of Spanish apartments in the 1960s, boasted a kitchen only accessible through a separate entrance.

— Belén Afonso, Architectural Digest, 19 Aug. 2026

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