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Recent Examples of lockbox
Master Lock Portable Small Lockbox Another item that can keep high-value items extra safe is a portable small lockbox.
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Liz Provencher, Travel + Leisure, 22 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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Liz Provencher, Travel + Leisure, 22 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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House staffers estimate the measure would strip $14 billion from local government revenues, 40% of which would come out of school coffers.—
Lawrence Mower Herald,
Miami Herald,
2 June 2026
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In October 2023, two months before board members were due to cast their crucial rezoning votes, Torian disbursed some $42,500 to the coffers of four Democrats running for reelection to the county’s board of supervisors, all of whom went on to support the digital gateway.—
Andrew Cockburn,
Harpers Magazine,
2 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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The men found information on target businesses and used pry bars and sledgehammers to break into buildings and open safes that stored pull-tab proceeds, the complaint states.—
Nick Ferraro,
Twin Cities,
28 May 2026
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The safes had been seized in a pot shop raid, a source within the sheriff’s office said.—
Josephine Stratman,
New York Daily News,
28 May 2026
Noun
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In tax terms, this one is very much in the vault (locked away).—
Kelly Phillips Erb,
Forbes.com,
30 May 2026
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Some gold ETFs directly invest in bullion kept in vaults, while others invest in shares of mining companies that tend to follow the price of gold while also being swayed by the companies' management decisions, efficiency and financials.—
Liz Knueven,
CNBC,
29 May 2026
Noun
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Police escorted the protesters, who also carried a coffin.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
1 June 2026
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Archaeologists have previously identified mudbrick and limestone burial structures, fragments of coffins, inscribed limestone blocks, and a Roman-period coin.—
Daniel Cassady,
ARTnews.com,
1 June 2026
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“Lockbox.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lockbox. Accessed 3 Jun. 2026.
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