Definition of strongboxnext
as in vault
a specially reinforced container to keep valuables safe keeps her jewelry in a strongbox

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Recent Examples of strongbox Excusing 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 By August 3, Bitcoin had rebounded by 15% to $23,300, raising the value of MicroStrategy’s strongbox by around $400 million. 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for strongbox
Noun
  • 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.
    Liz Knueven, CNBC, 15 July 2026
  • The People’s Bank of China, for instance, has pushed for multi-month buying sprees, while the Reserve Bank of India has repatriated roughly 100 tonnes of gold back to domestic vaults.
    Angelica Ang, Fortune, 15 July 2026
Noun
  • The safes had been seized in a pot shop raid, a source within the Sheriff’s Office said.
    Josephine Stratman, New York Daily News, 16 July 2026
  • They were instructed to stay on the existing roads to keep crews and the public safe.
    Shannon Tyler, Idaho Statesman, 13 July 2026
Noun
  • Ramirez, who’s running for a third term, had more than $946,000 in her campaign coffers as of June 30, records show.
    Russell Lissau, Chicago Tribune, 20 July 2026
  • What money reached the state’s coffers was distributed among a select few, leaving little to pay for social programs.
    Stephania Taladrid, New Yorker, 20 July 2026

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“Strongbox.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/strongbox. Accessed 22 Jul. 2026.

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