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Keyser Söze

Keyser Söze is a fictional Turkish crime lord in The Usual Suspects (1995), whose identity is revealed in the twist ending as Verbal Kint (Kevin Spacey), making the name shorthand for an elusive hidden mastermind.

Keyshaun Elliott

Keyshaun Elliott (born 2003) is an NFL linebacker for the Chicago Bears, drafted 166th overall in 2026 after college at New Mexico State and Arizona State, a Second-Team All-Big 12 pick.

Keyshawn Davis

Keyshawn Davis, "The Businessman", American pro boxer from Norfolk, Virginia, born 1999; Tokyo 2020 Olympic silver medalist, former WBO lightweight champion (beat Berinchyk, stripped for missing weight), 15-0 with 10 KOs at super lightweight.

Keyshawn James-Newby

Keyshawn James-Newby (born 2002) is an American football linebacker and edge rusher for the Philadelphia Eagles, drafted in the seventh round of the 2026 NFL Draft.

Keyshawn Johnson

Keyshawn Johnson (born 1972) is a former NFL wide receiver, USC star, first overall pick of the 1996 draft by the Jets, three-time Pro Bowler, and Super Bowl XXXVII champion with Tampa Bay.

Keyshia Cole

Keyshia Cole (born Keyshia Myeshia Johnson, 1981) is an American R&B singer from Oakland, California, one of the most successful R&B artists of the mid-2000s with three consecutive platinum albums.

Keysight

Keysight Technologies is an American electronic design, emulation, and test company headquartered in Santa Rosa, California. It was spun off from Agilent Technologies in 2014, inheriting the measurement business of Hewlett-Packard.

Keystone (architecture)

A keystone is the central wedge-shaped stone at the crown of an arch or vault, set in place last so it locks the surrounding stones into a self-supporting ring.

Keystone Cops

Keystone Cops (or Kops): fictional, humorously incompetent policemen in Mack Sennett's Keystone Film Company silent slapstick comedies, 1912–1917; debuted in Hoffmeyer's Legacy, made famous by The Bangville Police (1913), now an idiom for bungling incompetence.

Keystone Generating Station

Keystone Generating Station is a 1,711 MW coal-fired power plant in Shelocta, Pennsylvania, whose two bituminous coal units were commissioned in 1967 and 1968 and sell power into the PJM market.

Keystone National Group

Keystone National Group is an American private credit investment firm founded in 2006 by John Earl and Brandon Nielson, headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Keystone Pipeline

The Keystone Pipeline, also known as the Keystone Pipeline System, carries crude oil from Hardisty, Alberta, to U.S. refineries; its proposed Keystone XL expansion was canceled in 2021.

Keystone Private Market

Keystone Private Market is the fund series of Keystone National Group, a Salt Lake City private credit manager founded in 2006 by John Earl and Brandon Nielson.

Keystone species

Keystone species: species with ecosystem impacts disproportionately large relative to their abundance. Coined by Robert Paine in 1969 from Pisaster sea star removal experiments; classic examples include sea otters; distinct from umbrella, flagship, and indicator species.

Keystone Studios

Keystone Studios: the Edendale, Los Angeles slapstick comedy studio founded in 1912 by Mack Sennett, Kessel, and Baumann; home of the Keystone Kops and Chaplin's 1914 films; distinct from modern namesake companies.

Keystone symbol

Keystone symbol: the wedge-shaped crown stone of an arch, emblem of cohesion and completion; Keystone State nickname of Pennsylvania, Royal Arch and Mark Masonry emblem, heraldic charge.

Keystone XL

Keystone XL was a proposed Keystone Pipeline extension carrying oil sands crude from Hardisty, Alberta, to Steele City, Nebraska, canceled in 2021 after President Biden revoked its permit.

Keystroke dynamics

Keystroke dynamics is a behavioral biometric method that authenticates people from typing timing patterns like dwell and flight times, using only an existing keyboard or touchscreen.

Keystroke logging

Keystroke logging, also known as keylogging, records keys pressed on a keyboard, using software or hardware devices to capture passwords and bypass other security measures.

Keytar

The keytar, also known as the keyboard guitar, is a keyboard instrument held like a guitar and strapped over the shoulder for mobile stage playing.

Keytone Ventures

Keytone Ventures is a China-focused venture capital firm founded in 2008 and based in Beijing, investing primarily in technology, led by principal Zhixiong Joe Zhou.

Keyurabahucharitramu

Keyurabahucharitramu (కేయూరబాహుచరిత్రము) is a Telugu kathā-kāvya written by poet Manchana in the 12th or 13th century, one of the earliest Telugu works in the kathā narrative tradition.

Keyveatz

Keyveatz (키비츠) is a five-member South Korean girl group and AOMG's first girl crew, debuting June 30, 2026 with the EP OXY_GEN and title track OXY after the pre-release single Key Beats. Members Son Ju-one, Newy, Um Ji-one, Kim Yu-na, and Kang Ye-seul; three appeared on I-LAND2: N/a.

Keywan Riahi

Keywan Riahi is an energy-systems and integrated assessment modeler who directs the Energy, Climate, and Environment Program at IIASA and coordinated the RCPs and SSPs.

Keyword analysis (linguistics)

Keyword analysis is a corpus-linguistics method that compares each word's frequency in a target text against a reference corpus, producing a ranked list scored by keyness.

Keyword extraction

Keyword extraction is a natural language processing method that automatically identifies the most representative words or phrases in a document, used for indexing, summarization, and information retrieval.

Keyword network analysis

Keyword network analysis is a bibliometric method that treats keywords as nodes and their co-occurrence in publications as weighted links, mapping a field's thematic structure and trends.

Keyword spotting

Keyword spotting is a speech processing method that detects specific spoken words or phrases in an audio stream, outputting a confidence score rather than a transcription.

Kezar Stadium

Kezar Stadium, 670 Kezar Drive, San Francisco: 10,000-seat Golden Gate Park stadium opened 1925, original 49ers home 1946-1970, rebuilt 1991, new Golden City FC soccer home from 2025 deal.

Kezia Dugdale

Kezia Dugdale (born 1981) is a Scottish politician, MSP for Lothian 2011-2019 and Scottish Labour leader 2015-2017, elected with 72.1% of the vote, resigning in 2017 and leaving Holyrood in 2019.