Thesaurus results for BOXED (IN)

boxed (in)

verb

Definition of boxed (in)

past tense of box (in)

as in housed

to close or shut in by or as if by barriers upon attempting to leave, we discovered we were completely boxed in by other cars

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Developer Mark Sapperstein, CEO of 28 Walker, plans to build 500 for-sale townhomes and commercial space on about 90 acres in Baltimore Peninsula, including land that once housed The Baltimore Sun’s printing plant and newsroom.

— Lauren Breunig, Baltimore Sun, 7 Nov. 2026
If the Department of Homeland Security does not appeal Powers’ decision, Siemionkowicz is allowed to leave Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Campbell County Detention Center in Kentucky, where she has been housed since August 2025.

— Allison Kiehl, Chicago Tribune, 7 Nov. 2026

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Though the signature dumplings, chor muang—chicken and peanut filling encased in delicate butterfly pea flower dough—are the star, don’t overlook the noodle dishes, which are slurpable, expertly sauced, and so soft as to be almost buttery.

— Ali Domrongchai, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 Nov. 2026
This tableau appears encased by the windshield, as if under a glass bell.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 30 Oct. 2026

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The search included both town’s police and dive teams as well as drone and canine teams along the shoreline.

— Sean Krofssik, Hartford Courant, 8 Nov. 2026
Del Casher, the guitarist and inventor whose innovations included the wah-wah pedal, has died at the age of 88.

— Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone, 8 Nov. 2026

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Why are boys diagnosed around three to four times as often as girls, when the genes associated with autism aren’t confined to either group?

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 5 Nov. 2026
Born with spina bifida and confined to a wheelchair after his father was exposed to Agent Orange in Vietnam, Turek is a four-time Paralympian and two-time gold medalist in wheelchair basketball.

— Steve Henson, Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2026

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