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Recent Examples of lockbox
Humphries developed a system that secures barber tools in a lockbox built into the back of the barber chair, ensuring compliance with Denver International Airport's security requirements while still delivering a high-quality experience.
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Justin Adams, CBS News, 26 Mar. 2026
As a closed loop with its own revenue, the meter arrangement might end up in a lockbox outside of any restructuring.
—The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 22 Jan. 2026
Hallorann, now plagued by aggrieved spirits after opening his mental lockbox, sees a headless ghost slouching towards him through the flames.
—Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 15 Dec. 2025
Seeing his distress, his grandmother taught him how to keep unwanted spirits in a mental lockbox, and now that Pennywise has opened it, he’s once again surrounded by ghosts.
—Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 1 Dec. 2025
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Justin Adams, CBS News, 26 Mar. 2026
As a closed loop with its own revenue, the meter arrangement might end up in a lockbox outside of any restructuring.
—The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 22 Jan. 2026
Hallorann, now plagued by aggrieved spirits after opening his mental lockbox, sees a headless ghost slouching towards him through the flames.
—Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 15 Dec. 2025
Seeing his distress, his grandmother taught him how to keep unwanted spirits in a mental lockbox, and now that Pennywise has opened it, he’s once again surrounded by ghosts.
—Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 1 Dec. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for lockbox
Noun
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Excusing those two flickers of broken hegemony, the WSL’s highest echelon has been an unassailable strongbox, a figment of the rest of the table’s imagination.—
Megan Feringa,
New York Times,
9 Feb. 2026
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Buffs have been made to various maps in terms of monster density, chests, number of rare and magic monsters, essences, strongboxes, shrines and all of this is without specific Waystone or Tower modifiers.—
Paul Tassi,
Forbes,
16 Jan. 2025
Noun
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The IPOs of SpaceX, OpenAI and Anthropic could deliver billions of dollars to California’s coffers.—
Mike Gatto,
Mercury News,
23 June 2026
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The good news is that right now, only the looming IPOs of Anthropic, which will be wildly oversubscribed, and OpenAI, which will be far more tepid, stand in the way of the next run for the market, as the coffers seem to be replenishing.—
Jim Cramer,
CNBC,
21 June 2026
Noun
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Common options include home safes, bank safe-deposit boxes and third-party bullion depositories.—
Roxanne Downer,
USA Today,
28 Apr. 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
Noun
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My dad’s footlocker did not survive the flood, but many of its contents suffered only minor damage.—
Kathy Barnes,
Better Homes & Gardens,
10 July 2025
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The work is carried out in three gray wooden boxes the size of footlockers that house the colony.—
Corey Kilgannon,
New York Times,
13 May 2025
Noun
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According to the criminal complaint, Doubt told investigators that there was an issue between him and the victim over the theft of a safe.—
Michael Guise,
CBS News,
14 June 2026
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Picking up where episode 7 left off, Wayne (Toby Wallace) wakes up to Rue pillaging his safe.—
Britt Hayes,
Entertainment Weekly,
1 June 2026
Noun
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Pease will compete on vault, bars, and floor, Bullock on beam and floor, and Rose on vault, bars, and beam.—
Caroline Price,
Forbes.com,
20 June 2026
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Amenities and experiences Descend one floor below the lobby to enter the Mint Bar, a dark, moody space set in the former bank vault that maintains many of the original features from the early 20th-century building.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
18 June 2026
Noun
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The impersonal nature of safe burial practices and the severity of the epidemic were evident Friday as only healthcare workers in protective gear were allowed to handle the coffin and the burial.—
Justin Kabumba,
Los Angeles Times,
20 June 2026
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Carrying a cross, people stood at a distance as the small coffin was lowered into the ground by masked and gloved health workers, and a Catholic priest prayed over her body.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
19 June 2026
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“Lockbox.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lockbox. Accessed 24 Jun. 2026.
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