hiding place
noun
: a place where someone or something is hidden or can be hidden
My favorite hiding place when I was a kid was in the attic.
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Anne Frank’s Secret Annex: For the first time outside of Amsterdam, an exhibition at the Center for Jewish History reconstructs the Frank family’s hiding place during the devastation of the Holocaust.
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Aruna D’souza, New York Times, 14 Feb. 2025
The Salton Sea will likely remain a curiosity and hiding place for the weird until some real monster beneath the sea emerges, which could be a rush to start mining lithium made by the sea.
—Dennis Hinkamp, The Denver Post, 5 Feb. 2025
For the first time outside of Amsterdam, an exhibition reconstructs Anne’s hiding place during the devastation of the Holocaust.
—Shayla Colon, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2025
And there is no hiding place in eight years in such a public-facing job as this.
—Jack Pitt-Brooke, The Athletic, 15 July 2024
After several minutes of waiting for her daughter to emerge from her hiding place, Remillard decided to go searching around for the toddler.
—Jack Beresford, Newsweek, 6 Jan. 2025
Archaeologists found the wooden coffin and Ramses’ mummy in a hiding place at the Deir el-Bahari temple complex in 1881, but the alabaster and granite sarcophagi were missing, likely looted by ancient tomb robbers.
—Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Dec. 2024
Vance walks through the house to identify a hiding place where the children would go in an emergency.
—John Diedrich, Journal Sentinel, 5 Dec. 2024
Even so, the director is shrewd to zero in on the family home—a psychological war zone where secrets fester behind locked doors and nearly every room becomes a hiding place.
—Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 26 Nov. 2024
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Aruna D’souza, New York Times, 14 Feb. 2025
The Salton Sea will likely remain a curiosity and hiding place for the weird until some real monster beneath the sea emerges, which could be a rush to start mining lithium made by the sea.
—Dennis Hinkamp, The Denver Post, 5 Feb. 2025
For the first time outside of Amsterdam, an exhibition reconstructs Anne’s hiding place during the devastation of the Holocaust.
—Shayla Colon, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2025
And there is no hiding place in eight years in such a public-facing job as this.
—Jack Pitt-Brooke, The Athletic, 15 July 2024
After several minutes of waiting for her daughter to emerge from her hiding place, Remillard decided to go searching around for the toddler.
—Jack Beresford, Newsweek, 6 Jan. 2025
Archaeologists found the wooden coffin and Ramses’ mummy in a hiding place at the Deir el-Bahari temple complex in 1881, but the alabaster and granite sarcophagi were missing, likely looted by ancient tomb robbers.
—Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Dec. 2024
Vance walks through the house to identify a hiding place where the children would go in an emergency.
—John Diedrich, Journal Sentinel, 5 Dec. 2024
Even so, the director is shrewd to zero in on the family home—a psychological war zone where secrets fester behind locked doors and nearly every room becomes a hiding place.
—Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 26 Nov. 2024
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“Hiding place.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hiding%20place. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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