as in door
a barrier by which an entry is closed and opened
watertight hatches provided access through the ship's bulkheads
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Recent Examples of hatch
NBC News, 19 Mar. 2025
On Monday, Renault debuted a sequel: the Renault 5 Turbo 3E, an all-electric 540 hp hot hatch set for limited production in 2027.
—Erik Shilling, Robb Report, 18 Mar. 2025
Matthew Adams, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 18 Mar. 2025
Once established, the tiny flies continue to mate, lay eggs, and hatch indoors.
—Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 16 Mar. 2025
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Noun
Before the hatch is opened, crews will do a final inspection of the spacecraft to make sure no hazardous materials are present.
—NBC News, 19 Mar. 2025
On Monday, Renault debuted a sequel: the Renault 5 Turbo 3E, an all-electric 540 hp hot hatch set for limited production in 2027.
—Erik Shilling, Robb Report, 18 Mar. 2025
Verb
The split In January, word leaked that certain Keller school board members had hatched a plan to split the district in half using U.S. 377 as the dividing line.
—Matthew Adams, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 18 Mar. 2025
Once established, the tiny flies continue to mate, lay eggs, and hatch indoors.
—Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 16 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hatch
Noun
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YoungBoy Never Broke Again should be expecting a knock on his door and a fresh batch of homemade cookies some time real soon.—
Angel Diaz,
Billboard,
10 Apr. 2025
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Among the rest of the cast, Omar Miller is excellent as Cornbread, a sharecropper who works the door of the club, and Li Jun Li as Grace, part of the Chinese couple (with Yao as Bo Chow) who run the grocery stores for both the poor and the rich in town.—
Pete Hammond,
Deadline,
10 Apr. 2025
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The Handmaid’s Tale has already spawned a spinoff, The Testaments, that will star Lucy Halliday in the lead role opposite Dowd and Chase Infiniti.—
Danielle Directo-Meston,
HollywoodReporter,
9 Apr. 2025
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The storms were fueled by a stationary atmospheric river last week that spawned dozens of tornadoes and overwhelmed communities with up to 16 inches of rain in four days – a 100-to-1,000-year rainfall event, meteorologists said.—
Christopher Cann,
USA Today,
9 Apr. 2025
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Volume and channel rockers sit above the navigation pad with a number pad further up, while four color buttons and dedicated service buttons for Amazon Alexa, Amazon Prime Video, Disney+, LG Channels, Netflix, and Sling sit below.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
8 Apr. 2025
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Pour a cup: Bayern Munich currently sits at the top of the Frauen Bundesliga, six points clear of Eintracht Frankfurt.—
Emily Olsen,
New York Times,
8 Apr. 2025
Verb
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The new trailer offers a glimpse of a dark, brooding landscape where reality and the virtual world collide.—
Mitchell Peters,
Billboard,
5 Apr. 2025
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Playing as Zoe and Mio, you’re thrust into the whimsical fantasy and brooding sci-fi worlds that each of them dream up as fiction writers (hence the title).—
Lewis Gordon,
Vulture,
19 Mar. 2025
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If the Beatles at Shea Stadium in ’65 was packed with shrieking teenage fans, the All Starrs at the Venetian incubated quite a different ambience about six decades later.—
Mark Leibovich,
The Atlantic,
31 Mar. 2025
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Besides lacking scientific credibility or moral standing, quarantining West Point assumed that all seventy thousand residents at West Point were incubating Ebola.—
Edna Bonhomme,
Rolling Stone,
11 Mar. 2025
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“Hatch.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hatch. Accessed 15 Apr. 2025.
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