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Recent Examples of jewel box
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.
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Sofia Celeste, Footwear News, 5 Sep. 2025
But in late summer, when the city’s Swan Queens have flown upstate or migrated overseas, the Art Deco jewel box presents a ballet festival.
—Air Mail, 9 Aug. 2025
Most homes follow a fairly rectilinear design scheme, in which each room acts as a sort of jewel box, bound by right angles and straight lines.
—Tori Latham, Robb Report, 6 Aug. 2025
This jewel box is run by Austin Classical Guitar in an old elementary school building.
—Michael Barnes, Austin American Statesman, 2 July 2025
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Sofia Celeste, Footwear News, 5 Sep. 2025
But in late summer, when the city’s Swan Queens have flown upstate or migrated overseas, the Art Deco jewel box presents a ballet festival.
—Air Mail, 9 Aug. 2025
Most homes follow a fairly rectilinear design scheme, in which each room acts as a sort of jewel box, bound by right angles and straight lines.
—Tori Latham, Robb Report, 6 Aug. 2025
This jewel box is run by Austin Classical Guitar in an old elementary school building.
—Michael Barnes, Austin American Statesman, 2 July 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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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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On the floor is a hatbox from a hat shop in London.—
Sloane Crosley,
The New Yorker,
5 Aug. 2024
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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 whole place is a tinderbox.—
Rowan Jacobsen,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Oct. 2025
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Unlike natural thinning, large fire-resilient trees are typically high-graded for felling in Jackson, creating tinderboxes of 300 to 500 mostly juvenile trees per acre.—
John P. O’Brien,
Mercury News,
13 Sep. 2025
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The shop has a selection of over 100,000 books, including a collection so rare that the shop owners keep them locked away in the former bank vault.—
Cat Sposato,
Travel + Leisure,
4 Nov. 2025
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This is not your average vault.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
3 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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Anyone with information about a Purple Heart return, particularly a safe-deposit box connected to Robert Cawthon, is urged to contact the Illinois treasurer’s office at claimantconnect@illinoistreasurer.gov.—
Molly Morrow,
Chicago Tribune,
12 June 2025
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“Jewel box.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/jewel%20box. Accessed 10 Nov. 2025.
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