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
Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 22 Apr. 2026
The source has been determined to be a barge that is leaking after oil came out of a hatch.
—Ashley Grams, CBS News, 21 Apr. 2026
Nathan Pilling, Kansas City Star, 28 Apr. 2026
In the play, Caesar’s advisers Cassius and Brutus hatch a plot to murder the ever more tyrannical leader of the Roman republic.
—Charlie Tyson, The Atlantic, 27 Apr. 2026
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Noun
After the eggs hatch, the maggots burrow further into the tissue and cause painful infestations.
—Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 22 Apr. 2026
The source has been determined to be a barge that is leaking after oil came out of a hatch.
—Ashley Grams, CBS News, 21 Apr. 2026
Verb
Each year, Canada geese around the Independence Center mall lay eggs, and employees and customers watch and wait for fluffy goslings to hatch.
—Nathan Pilling, Kansas City Star, 28 Apr. 2026
In the play, Caesar’s advisers Cassius and Brutus hatch a plot to murder the ever more tyrannical leader of the Roman republic.
—Charlie Tyson, The Atlantic, 27 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hatch
Noun
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There’s the front door intercom panel, a pair of embossed leather club chairs and, fatefully, Mr Big’s Peloton water bottle.—
Kailyn Brown,
Los Angeles Times,
28 Apr. 2026
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The girl reportedly freed herself and knocked on a nearby neighbor's door, where she was brought inside to safety.—
Madison E. Goldberg,
PEOPLE,
28 Apr. 2026
Verb
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Those observations have spawned about 23,000 research papers written by nearly 29,000 astronomers in total worldwide, and about 1,100 of those papers were written in 2025 alone.—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
24 Apr. 2026
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However, plans for a security fence there spawned dueling lawsuits between the Shapiros and a neighbor over who rightfully owns a sliver of land abutting the two properties.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
23 Apr. 2026
Verb
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Most evenings, Mohamed Ismail would sit at his local ‘ahwa, one of the small, no-frills coffee shops that are the cornerstone of social life in Cairo.—
Mirette Magdy,
Bloomberg,
27 Apr. 2026
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While Corcoran’s take sits well outside the norms of good personal finance advice, her experience is perhaps unusual.—
Eleanor Pringle,
Fortune,
27 Apr. 2026
Verb
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The production, directed with the brooding fluidity that is David Cromer’s calling card, is most alive in the evolving dynamic between Nick and Jacki, whose romance happens by degrees then all at once before reality intervenes and the criminal justice bureaucracy grinds to a halt.—
Theater Critic,
Los Angeles Times,
29 Apr. 2026
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And, even to this day, the dark and brooding aesthetic holds up beautifully.—
Sergio Pereira,
Space.com,
25 Apr. 2026
Verb
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Iranian forces have laid mines and threatened commercial traffic in the narrow waterway.—
Emma Bussey,
FOXNews.com,
27 Apr. 2026
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The top four-fifths of what will be a 212-foot-tall core stage arrived to KSC’s Turn Basin after making a 900-mile trip laying horizontally on NASA’s Pegasus barge, which picked up the hardware from the Michoud Assembly Building in New Orleans last week.—
Richard Tribou,
The Orlando Sentinel,
27 Apr. 2026
Verb
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That’s 27 million people watching a chicken try to incubate a kitten.—
Hanna Wickes,
Kansas City Star,
27 Apr. 2026
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Generally speaking, hens exhibit a behavior known as broodiness — a hormonal state in which they are driven to sit on and incubate anything that seems to need warming.—
Hanna Wickes,
Charlotte Observer,
27 Apr. 2026
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“Hatch.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hatch. Accessed 1 May. 2026.
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