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Recent Examples of jewel box
An Air France lounge in Paris has rest-room suites with padded leather walls and blown-glass chandeliers, like a jewel box for bowel movements.
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Zach Helfand, New Yorker, 26 Nov. 2025
Surti’s restaurant, Tailor — a jewel box of a fine-dining Indian restaurant — this month became the first restaurant serving Gujarati Indian food to be recognized by Michelin.
—Mackensy Lunsford, Nashville Tennessean, 18 Nov. 2025
The jewel box–like property was created by combining a series of smaller hotels into this 32-room hideaway.
—Mark Ellwood, AFAR Media, 29 Sep. 2025
The dining section includes Le Petit RH, an upscale restaurant envisaged as a jewel box, featuring a menu of caviar specialties, small plates, signature salads and seafood towers.
—Sofia Celeste, Footwear News, 5 Sep. 2025
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Zach Helfand, New Yorker, 26 Nov. 2025
Surti’s restaurant, Tailor — a jewel box of a fine-dining Indian restaurant — this month became the first restaurant serving Gujarati Indian food to be recognized by Michelin.
—Mackensy Lunsford, Nashville Tennessean, 18 Nov. 2025
The jewel box–like property was created by combining a series of smaller hotels into this 32-room hideaway.
—Mark Ellwood, AFAR Media, 29 Sep. 2025
The dining section includes Le Petit RH, an upscale restaurant envisaged as a jewel box, featuring a menu of caviar specialties, small plates, signature salads and seafood towers.
—Sofia Celeste, Footwear News, 5 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for jewel box
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One snuffbox had been a present for George V on his 55th birthday in 1920 while the other featured 3,000 diamonds and was bought by Queen Mary in 1932 for £1,000, the equivalent in modern money of around $75,000 according to the Bank of England's inflation calculator.—
Josh Hammer,
Newsweek,
2 Dec. 2024
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The snuffbox is the most widespread of the Epioblasma genus of mussels.—
Jennifer Dixon,
Detroit Free Press,
15 Aug. 2024
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The flowers in question come in two sizes and arrive inside a golden hatbox that’s bound to elevate the looks of any room it’s placed in.—
Stacia Datskovska,
Footwear News,
22 Jan. 2026
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Cords dangle uncovered from teensy lamps, pens live in a vintage-looking tomato can, and there’s a random magic 8 ball next to the huge hatbox for the huge hat.—
Jocelyn Silver,
Vogue,
12 June 2025
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The Pinnacle's importance to emerging, independent-minded, hard-touring country acts To the untrained eye, The Pinnacle is a raw bandbox that feels like a split-level airplane hangar where superstars play pop music.—
Marcus K. Dowling,
The Tennessean,
2 July 2025
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As for the transplanted Tucker, playing home games at Wrigley Field, a notorious bandbox, should help raise his value.—
Dan Schlossberg,
Forbes,
13 Dec. 2024
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Lily Franck; 2024; USA; 4 min A mother’s hope chest becomes a catalyst for her daughter’s reconsideration of traditional gender roles in this charming stop-motion animation.—
Addie Morfoot,
Variety,
5 Feb. 2025
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While the tradition of a hope chest has its roots thousands of years ago, cedar became the material du jour thanks to its insect-repelling qualities.—
Heather Bien,
Southern Living,
6 Sep. 2024
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In June 2025, the caisson program restarted following an $18 million overhaul by the Army.—
Andrew Paul,
Popular Science,
9 July 2025
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The refurbishment included a complete overhaul, including a paint job, the repairing of caisson cracks, window and door replacements, cleaning and re-pointing of the foundation masonry, restoring all wood floors, and reconstruction of the intermediate landing between the bridge and gangway.—
Michael P. McKinney,
USA Today,
7 June 2025
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The red card turned St James’ Park into a frenzied tinderbox.—
Jacob Tanswell,
New York Times,
22 Jan. 2026
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But a new investigation by The Bee reveals fireworks experts are questioning whether Cal Fire ignored warning signs that pointed to the Esparto compound as a potential tinderbox.—
Joe Rubin,
Sacbee.com,
16 Nov. 2025
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The company’s use of Swiss vaults to hold its approximately 140 tons of gold—which backs its gold token but also forms part of its own treasury—coincides with a record precious metals rally.—
Carlos Garcia,
Fortune,
30 Jan. 2026
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The mart is launching what will become a series of dinner events where one vendor will be selected to invite up to 16 people for an intimate dinner in the Bosch/Thermador Gaggenau showroom, located in the historic vault of the Merchandise Mart National Bank, established in 1930.—
Jean E. Palmieri,
Footwear News,
30 Jan. 2026
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The poem might also be a safe-deposit box, keeping the names of species intact for an environmentally unstable future, when the trees that the poem names may only exist in language.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
24 Nov. 2025
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Put all hard copies in a safe-deposit box or keep them at a separate property, or store all documentation in the cloud (never hurts to do both!).—
Janet Arzt,
Forbes.com,
16 June 2025
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“Jewel box.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/jewel%20box. Accessed 31 Jan. 2026.
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