How to Use high-security in a Sentence
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The next one, Sari, was a high-security one.
—Cora Engelbrecht, New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2026
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Armed guards stand at the entrance to its high-security chamber.
—Beth Py-Lieberman, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Sep. 2023
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After a heist went wrong, Ćirković was sentenced to eight years in a high-security prison.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 27 Feb. 2025
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Homes will be lock and leave, meaning ones with low maintenance and high-security.
—Joe Marusak, Charlotte Observer, 30 June 2026
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Alarms on two high-security display cases were triggered as the thieves cut holes in the glass to grab the jewels.
—Hilary Whiteman, CNN Money, 23 Oct. 2025
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Last spring, Cummings was sent to a high-security yard at the state prison in Lancaster.
—Hannah Wiley, Los Angeles Times, 1 May 2025
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The facility is built amid farmland, and lies between a high-security prison and a medieval castle.
—Gaby Wood, Vogue, 22 Feb. 2023
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In a high-security prison cell, sixteen-year-old Dan Martell sat alone, his life seemingly in fragments.
—Omaid Homayun, Forbes, 22 Jan. 2025
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Once inside, the thieves threatened staff with the same tools before smashing into two high-security display cases.
—Cameron Schoppa, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Oct. 2025
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For millionaires — or anyone else — looking to hide their valuables, private high-security vaults have become a thing.
—Daniel Wine, CNN Money, 17 Sep. 2025
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The World Cup is a high-security event and we're told authorities have to check tickets to keep the public safe.
—Christine Sloan, CBS News, 7 Apr. 2026
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There are 254 women inside the high-security unit where the problems were believed to have occurred.
—Miguel Torres, The Arizona Republic, 19 Aug. 2023
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The bays are lockable via a key slot at the bottom, an essential feature in high-security environments.
—PCMAG, 17 Feb. 2025
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Something radical is about to happen, at least by the culture and rules of a high-security American prison.
—Mark Pazniokas, Hartford Courant, 10 Mar. 2025
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These men were among nearly 200 inmates who left a high-security Russian prison to join the war in Ukraine.
—Oleg Matsnev Gray Beltran, New York Times, 4 Dec. 2023
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Like the high-security site, however, the tunnels were ambiguous.
—William J. Broad, New York Times, 20 Dec. 2023
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The two parties would take a somewhat different approach for police protection at high-security venues.
—David Zahniser, Los Angeles Times, 27 June 2026
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The trucks are like middlemen between banks ready to have their cash inspected and the Fed, which receives the bills through high-security doors and windows.
—Emily Wright, Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2023
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For example, the high-security display cases that housed the jewels were designed to withstand bullets.
—Hilary Whiteman, CNN Money, 23 Oct. 2025
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Putin’s main democratic rival, Alexei Navalny, is in a high-security prison in the far north, safely out of view.
—Brady Knox, Washington Examiner, 8 Jan. 2024
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Drive onto any high-security government facility and you will be stopped at the gate by guards who use a mirror at the end of a pole to look under your vehicle.
—John Kelly, Washington Post, 9 July 2023
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The data is stored on clients’ servers or high-security public clouds, and Viact can access them only with clients’ consent, said Ng.
—Zinnia Lee, Forbes.com, 16 Apr. 2025
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The festival holds an annual screening and gala at the city’s high-security prison, the JVA.
—Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 May 2024
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The pair then broke into two high-security display cases, snatched various pieces of crown jewels on display, and scurried back down the ladder and escaped.
—Nicole Hoey, Robb Report, 27 Oct. 2025
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The requirements outlined here have been available and used in specialized high-security applications for some years, and many of the attacks have been known for a decade.
—Guy Fedorkow, IEEE Spectrum, 2 June 2025
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Tuesday's judgment means Assange remains in legal limbo, in a high-security prison on the edge of London.
—Fatima Al-Kassab, NPR, 26 Mar. 2024
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Each chain segment is built from 10-millimeter, six-sided links of hardened steel, all connecting to a high-security deadbolt.
—Maggie Slepian, Travel + Leisure, 5 Feb. 2024
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It is described on the Bureau of Prisons website as a high-security penitentiary.
—Annette McGivney, Outside, 9 Dec. 2025
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Back in the febrile 1960s, this job had required high-security clearance, and at first production moved location every few months.
—Nicholas Foulkes, Robb Report, 15 Apr. 2023
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Some residents disliked the high-security atmosphere in the usually quiet city.
—CNN Money, 14 Oct. 2025
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