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Recent Examples of jewel box
This new listing at is best described as a charming jewel box, according to Realtor Amanda Layden of the Marshall + Ostop team at William Raveis.
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Helen I. Bennett, Hartford Courant, 11 Jan. 2026
Theme a room with on-trend color drenching, wallpaper, or the classic jewel box look.
—Nishaa Sharma, The Spruce, 6 Jan. 2026
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.
—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
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Helen I. Bennett, Hartford Courant, 11 Jan. 2026
Theme a room with on-trend color drenching, wallpaper, or the classic jewel box look.
—Nishaa Sharma, The Spruce, 6 Jan. 2026
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.
—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
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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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Hitchcock recalled a day during the summer of 2007 when the cannon, now on its caisson and a moveable platform, was tested on the event level of Nationwide Arena, just beyond the ice-resurfacer entrance.—
Aaron Portzline,
New York Times,
2 Feb. 2026
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In 2024, Bally’s had to relocate the 34-story hotel tower, which is beginning to rise up over the Ohio feeder ramp, to the south end of the casino after it was determined that driving caissons into the ground might damage municipal water management infrastructure pipes along the river.—
Robert Channick,
Chicago Tribune,
15 Jan. 2026
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Now, even a ceremonial White House dinner has become a tinderbox and fellow Republicans openly acknowledge that Trump’s aim as president is not to unify the country.—
Joey Cappelletti,
Los Angeles Times,
19 Feb. 2026
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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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The first floor unfolds into expansive formal rooms, former dining and sitting areas, a kitchen awaiting reconstruction, a library, sunroom, tearoom, den, vaults and multiple fireplaces.—
Brendel Clark,
Freep.com,
21 Feb. 2026
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Think of aerials as the snow equivalent of the vault in gymnastics.—
Andrew Greif,
NBC news,
20 Feb. 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 23 Feb. 2026.
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