as in aperture
a place in a surface allowing passage into or through a thing
the mouth is a bodily orifice
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Recent Examples of orifice
Don’t let the green mist tinged with white lightning and rotating cosmic orifices fool you, however: Ingesting psychedelic drugs is not recommended before watching this film.
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Katie Rife, IndieWire, 12 Mar. 2025
This fleshy conglomerate feels vaguely seductive despite having only navels for orifices, only knee-like lumps for appendages.
—Emily Watlington, ARTnews.com, 27 Nov. 2024
Like other Ediacaran fossils, Quaestio doesn't seem to posses any orifices.
—David Bressan, Forbes, 18 Oct. 2024
There’s a questionable orifice in the front of his forehead.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 8 Oct. 2024
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It's designed for deep sky astrophotography, while also being well suited to image capture of the Sun and Moon – with its camera system built around a Sony IMX585 sensor and 50-mm aperture.—
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This month, Tapestry laid out the strategic plan that will guide it for the next three years, focusing pushing Coach toward $10 billion in sales and opening the customer aperture, targeting not just women who bought bags last year, but also women who could have.—
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If the goal is a lineup with as few holes as possible, the Hurricanes do so more emphatically than any other team in the league.—
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The wire makes digging up the bulbs more difficult, but allows the foliage to easily grow through the wire holes.—
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“Orifice.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/orifice. Accessed 4 Oct. 2025.
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