Thesaurus results for BOXES

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noun (1)

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plural of box

as in bins

a covered rectangular container for storing or transporting things filled a whole box with books

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as in coffins

a boxlike container for holding a dead body the only way I'm ever leaving this hospital room is in a box

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as in TVs

an electronic device with a screen and speakers that reproduces images and sound would you switch on the box so that we can watch the news?

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as in pickles

a difficult, puzzling, or embarrassing situation from which there is no easy escape with our new home still unfinished, and the buyers of our condo eager to move in, we were in a real box

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plural of box

as in punches

a hard strike with a part of the body or an instrument the vicious bully delivered a box to the child's ear

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verb

present tense third-person singular of box

as in clips

to deliver a blow to (someone or something) usually in a strong vigorous manner his mother threatened to box his ears if he didn't show a bit more respect

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Recent Examples of boxes

Noun

The owners said the group stole about $250 from the register and three cash boxes with $4,000 from the back office. —

Jeramie Bizzle, CBS News, 5 Mar. 2026 Age bumps him down a tick, but an ideal profile to check important boxes. —

Paul Dehner Jr, New York Times, 5 Mar. 2026 Approximately 2 to 3 days’ worth of meals are also packaged together in small boxes. —

Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 4 Mar. 2026 But for me, this was just still kind of checking boxes and building up. —

Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Mar. 2026 The Republicans were casting ballots in separate precinct boxes instead of casting them all into the same ballot box like the Democrats, county officials said. —

Claire Osborn, Austin American Statesman, 4 Mar. 2026 In addition to all the vases and tissue boxes Stephan recommends, make sure your book collection is punctuated with decorative bookends. —

Stephanie Osmanski, Better Homes & Gardens, 4 Mar. 2026 Earlier Wednesday morning, about a half dozen election workers were still tabulating more than 50,000 ballots in the county elections office, pizza boxes scattered on nearby tables. —

Sarah Bahari, Dallas Morning News, 4 Mar. 2026 For the Chiefs, the Rams were an ideal team to check the three boxes. —

Sam McDowell 4, Kansas City Star, 4 Mar. 2026

Verb

Nick Phillips, with Applied Digital, said the tax exemption ban effectively boxes out data centers from building in South Dakota. —

Makenzie Huber, States Newsroom, 19 Feb. 2026 The rich Redfellows get dispatched one by one in scenes that are fun but empty — neither cathartic nor comic, simply boxes to be checked off to great big poundings of thunder and harpsichords. —

Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 18 Feb. 2026 Toe tap on the sideline for 17, then boxes out Greg Newsome for 14 more. —

Joe Nguyen, Denver Post, 21 Dec. 2025 This, alas, also boxes his constituents in. —

U T Editorial Board, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Nov. 2025 To mark the occasion, Crumbl is also releasing limited-edition Martha Stewart boxes for its six-pack orders — perfect for gifting or adding a touch of elegance to any gathering. —

Moná Thomas, PEOPLE, 3 Nov. 2025 This all played out just after the museum had opened, with bystanders able to video one suspect in a high-visibility vest standing at one of the glass boxes housing historical treasures. —

Alexander Smith, NBC news, 20 Oct. 2025 That confusion is further reflected by the manic hyper-subjectivity of Bronstein’s filmmaking, which boxes Linda into a close-up so tight that everything around her — especially her unnamed daughter, who almost never appears on screen — might as well be a disembodied echo of her own anxiety. —

David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 10 Oct. 2025

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Verb

The holder clips right to your pack or waders and keeps everything in a neat, easy-to-dispense stack.

— Francesca Krempa, Outside, 23 Dec. 2025
The carry handles each have a magnetic piece that then clips together to form a single bar to grasp.

— Adam Campbell-Schmitt, Bon Appetit Magazine, 18 Sep. 2025