safe-deposit box

Definition of safe-deposit boxnext
as in vault
a specially reinforced container to keep valuables safe kept the deed to the house in a safe-deposit box at the bank

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Recent Examples of safe-deposit box 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, 24 Nov. 2025 Examples are money, unclaimed insurance proceeds and items in safe-deposit boxes. Jim Saunders, Sun Sentinel, 19 May 2025 Rarely did Ed McCaffrey open up his safe-deposit box to show off his Super Bowl rings, having also won with the 1997 and ’98 Denver Broncos. Cam Inman, The Mercury News, 7 Feb. 2024 An appeals court finds the FBI did violate rights of some Beverly Hills safe-deposit box holders. Anthony De Leon, Los Angeles Times, 25 Jan. 2024 See All Example Sentences for safe-deposit box
Recent Examples of Synonyms for safe-deposit box
Noun
  • Individual apparatus leads include Patrick Hoopes on pommel horse, Asher Cohen on still rings, Yul Moldauer on parallel bars, Cooper Kim on high bar, and Kameron Nelson on vault, setting up an exciting final day.
    Caroline Price, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026
  • The organization, which is responsible for cleaning up the messes after superhero battles, has something that Jean wants locked inside a vault.
    Jordan Moreau, Variety, 31 July 2026
Noun
  • The group shattered windows, stole or attempted to steal cash, register drawers and safes.
    Caroline Zimmerman, Kansas City Star, 7 Aug. 2026
  • Before refrigeration became mainstream, cutout details were added to larders and meat safes as a way to ventilate a cupboard without leaving it open.
    Kelsey Mulvey, Architectural Digest, 27 July 2026
Noun
  • Then Cox-Rosen found another jam on I-75 southbound at the South 120 Loop (Exit 263), where four or five vehicles and a box truck tangled.
    Doug Turnbull, AJC.com, 9 Aug. 2026
  • Verve Culture’s Mahjong set pairs handmade wooden tiles with a mango wood storage box that feels worlds away from the plastic versions many of us grew up with.
    Nicole Kliest, Vogue, 8 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • 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
  • 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

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“Safe-deposit box.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/safe-deposit%20box. Accessed 11 Aug. 2026.

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