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Recent Examples of strongboxExcusing those two flickers of broken hegemony, the WSL’s highest echelon has been an unassailable strongbox, a figment of the rest of the table’s imagination.—
Megan Feringa,
New York Times,
9 Feb. 2026 Buffs have been made to various maps in terms of monster density, chests, number of rare and magic monsters, essences, strongboxes, shrines and all of this is without specific Waystone or Tower modifiers.—
Paul Tassi,
Forbes,
16 Jan. 2025 Another artifact reflecting the sharp divides between rich and poor is an elaborate 800-pound steel strongbox that would have been used to store money—a great deal of it—in the home.—
Teresa Nowakowski,
Smithsonian Magazine,
20 Nov. 2023 Keep in mind that right now, its Bitcoin strongbox is worth just $700 million or so more than its debt.—
Shawn Tully,
Fortune,
3 Aug. 2022 By the time the duke and a boat containing his strongbox of memoirs and political documents were loaded, only one other boat was able to escape.—
Ashley Strickland,
CNN,
17 June 2022 Today the sacred strongbox largely is in the hands of the cultural Left.—
John D. Hagen,
National Review,
20 Aug. 2020 Police were called and found that two rings were missing from the master closet, where a strongbox had been moved and pried open.—
Thomas Jewell,
cleveland,
30 Jan. 2020
Some gold ETFs directly invest in bullion kept in vaults, while others invest in shares of mining companies that tend to follow the price of gold while also being swayed by the companies' management decisions, efficiency and financials.
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Liz Knueven,
CNBC,
26 June 2026
That good fortune didn’t unlock the Powerball vault, which will be up to $348 million for Saturday’s drawing, or the Florida Lotto top prize.
The IPOs of SpaceX, OpenAI and Anthropic could deliver billions of dollars to California’s coffers.
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Mike Gatto,
Mercury News,
23 June 2026
The good news is that right now, only the looming IPOs of Anthropic, which will be wildly oversubscribed, and OpenAI, which will be far more tepid, stand in the way of the next run for the market, as the coffers seem to be replenishing.