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Recent Examples of lockbox
Unlike so many other places in Europe, with their EasyJet hubs and lockbox-enabled Airbnbs, the Jungfrau region's hospitality is, at this point, part of the traditional culture of the area—not some frantic, ad hoc adjustment made in the past decade.
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Alice Gregory, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 Feb. 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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Alice Gregory, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 Feb. 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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Even casinos with bulging coffers have an upper limit.—
Manon Bischoff,
Scientific American,
12 May 2026
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In recent years, Amazon’s assumption of the Thursday Night Football package and exploratory nibbles from the likes of YouTube have poured billions of bonus bucks into the league’s coffers.—
Anthony Crupi,
Sportico.com,
11 May 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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Where Banking History Meets Live Music The hotel’s name is, of course, a reference to a promissory note—and many of the original features, including seven bank vaults and safes, have been thoughtfully preserved and woven into the design.—
Lydia Mansel,
Southern Living,
6 May 2026
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All rooms will have a 65-inch flat-screen television, in-room safe, a Nespresso machine, Le Labo bath amenities, flexible seating options, and floor-to-ceiling windows.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
30 Apr. 2026
Noun
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The collection was packed away in the museum’s vault, untouched for decades to avoid offending Islamic values or creating the appearance of catering to Western sensibilities.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
8 May 2026
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The Bankers’ Bar is lined with vault drawers, calling back to the building’s origins as the headquarters of a 1950s bank.—
Eddi Fiegel,
Robb Report,
7 May 2026
Noun
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Some relatives broke down upon seeing the coffins, as a Muslim cleric led funeral prayers under tight security.—
Riaz Khan,
Los Angeles Times,
10 May 2026
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Zayn didn’t expect the equalizer – Lil Yachty – to rise out of the coffin and hit him with a candy cane.—
Ryan Gaydos,
FOXNews.com,
9 May 2026
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“Lockbox.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lockbox. Accessed 14 May. 2026.
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