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Recent Examples of cubbyhole
Once removed from their cubbyhole, the bits can be inserted in one of two hexagonal driver holes.
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Ben Coxworth, New Atlas, 17 July 2024
Some new additions included cubbyholes for each employee — so no one had to drag home their coffee mug, family photo or ergonomic keyboard each night — small conference rooms workers can reserve and private phone rooms.
—Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 13 June 2024
Team principals and engineers were lined up on stools in their little cubbyholes crowding around laptops.
—Peter Rubin, Longreads, 7 Mar. 2024
There are hanging plastic dividers that catch the light as people move them aside to find hidden cubbyholes and tunnels.
—Amy Schwabe, Journal Sentinel, 4 Jan. 2024
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Ben Coxworth, New Atlas, 17 July 2024
Some new additions included cubbyholes for each employee — so no one had to drag home their coffee mug, family photo or ergonomic keyboard each night — small conference rooms workers can reserve and private phone rooms.
—Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 13 June 2024
Team principals and engineers were lined up on stools in their little cubbyholes crowding around laptops.
—Peter Rubin, Longreads, 7 Mar. 2024
There are hanging plastic dividers that catch the light as people move them aside to find hidden cubbyholes and tunnels.
—Amy Schwabe, Journal Sentinel, 4 Jan. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cubbyhole
Noun
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Even at a modest warm-up pace, Feeling the chassis turn-in to corners, modulating the brakes, and letting the mighty S52 pull me out of corner-exit with assured low-end torque was quite smile-inducing.—
Peter Nelson,
Forbes.com,
23 May 2025
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Printed by the thousands to hand out on street corners, the advertisements were meant to be ephemeral, tossed out when the party was over, but more than 1,000 of them have been preserved by the Cornell Hip Hop Archive, with nearly 500 shared via JSTOR by the Cornell University Library.—
April White,
JSTOR Daily,
23 May 2025
Noun
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Josh Hart did not know the answer, nor did others inside the New York Knicks who have scrutinized the team’s nooks and crannies all season.—
Fred Katz,
New York Times,
16 May 2025
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Each level is also absolutely crawling with secret collectibles hidden in various nooks and crannies, which often tease you with a glimpse through a hole in some impassable wall or rock formation.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
9 May 2025
Noun
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During the day, the property has a plethora of nooks in which to escape, from quiet decks tucked under trees or on the water, plus a wild beach, a yoga deck, and an outdoor gym.—
Lauren Mowery,
Forbes.com,
23 May 2025
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But honestly, nothing beats reading aloud to my kids in our little reading nook at home.—
New York Times,
New York Times,
18 May 2025
Noun
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Past that is the kitchen (in the alcove on the left) and the dining area (right, up the steps) where Snitow sat with feminist friends around a long table.—
Adriane Quinlan,
Curbed,
22 May 2025
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My favorite, Taylor Creek, weaves through a narrow box canyon and crisscrosses its namesake creek before reaching the eye-popping turnaround point: a double-arch alcove.—
Stephanie Vermillion,
Travel + Leisure,
17 May 2025
Noun
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Its characters and their cubicles took over Grand Central Station — and the internet — for two days.—
Ethan Shanfeld,
Variety,
29 May 2025
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As a condition of his probation, el-Fattah, who had a seven-year-old son, had to present himself at six o’clock every evening at his local police station, in the district of Dokki, and spend the night in a wooden cubicle in the courtyard.—
Sam Knight,
New Yorker,
23 May 2025
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“Cubbyhole.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cubbyhole. Accessed 5 Jun. 2025.
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