for safekeeping
idiom
: in order to be kept from danger or harm
I gave her my jewelry for safekeeping while I was away.
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Whether to be mad at Grant Hill for excusing a healthy-enough Kawhi or proud of the Clippers for pulling him back for safekeeping or, alternately, mad at the team for pulling him back for safekeeping…
And most of all: Was Kawhi hurt or healthy?
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Mirjam Swanson, Orange County Register, 26 Sep. 2024
As part of the eviction, sheriff’s records show, deputies collected three firearms, including an AR-15, and at least one hunting bow, and kept them for safekeeping.
—Dalia Faheid, CNN, 6 Sep. 2024
In 1916, government forestry officials removed the lone male Wood’s cycad from the wild and transferred it to an enclosure in Pretoria, South Africa, for safekeeping, as Cinti writes in the Conversation.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 July 2024
The church took possession of the shroud until the early 1400s when the knight’s granddaughter offered to take it for safekeeping during The Hundred Years’ War.
—Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 13 May 2024
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Mirjam Swanson, Orange County Register, 26 Sep. 2024
As part of the eviction, sheriff’s records show, deputies collected three firearms, including an AR-15, and at least one hunting bow, and kept them for safekeeping.
—Dalia Faheid, CNN, 6 Sep. 2024
In 1916, government forestry officials removed the lone male Wood’s cycad from the wild and transferred it to an enclosure in Pretoria, South Africa, for safekeeping, as Cinti writes in the Conversation.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 July 2024
The church took possession of the shroud until the early 1400s when the knight’s granddaughter offered to take it for safekeeping during The Hundred Years’ War.
—Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 13 May 2024
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“For safekeeping.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/for%20safekeeping. Accessed 25 Oct. 2024.
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