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 Anyone with information about a Purple Heart return, particularly a safe-deposit box connected to Robert Cawthon, is urged to contact the Illinois treasurer’s office at [email protected]. Molly Morrow, Chicago Tribune, 12 June 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
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Noun
  • Players had four tries per hour to guess the order and could win at most one BOGO entrée or double protein during the campaign, along with the chance to win the grand prize of free burritos for a year, which was granted to the first player to unlock the vault each hour.
    Chiara Kim, PEOPLE, 5 June 2026
  • 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, 5 June 2026
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
  • The Lone Man The FBI finally interviewed Reiter in 2019, but only because Reiter called them to pick up two boxes of Epstein case files that were found by Recarey’s widow years after his death.
    Julie K. Brown, Miami Herald, 4 June 2026
  • Obsession, a Toronto premiere that has since turned into one of the year’s unlikeliest box-office successes with rare, late-run weekend gains, traces how forbidden desire spirals into supernatural terror.
    Patrick Brzeski, HollywoodReporter, 4 June 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 10 Jun. 2026.

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