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Recent Examples of sea chest
Chapter 1: The First Lieutenant Each man in the squadron carried, along with a sea chest, his own burdensome story.
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David Grann,
The New Yorker,
28 Feb. 2023
The crack formed on a spot where two pieces were welded together and was hidden behind a sea chest that houses a fire pump, which is part of an onboard sprinkler system.
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Washington Post,
16 Sep. 2017
David Grann,
The New Yorker,
28 Feb. 2023
The crack formed on a spot where two pieces were welded together and was hidden behind a sea chest that houses a fire pump, which is part of an onboard sprinkler system.
—
Washington Post,
16 Sep. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sea chest
Noun
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Common options include home safes, bank safe-deposit boxes and third-party bullion depositories.
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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.
Noun
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My dad’s footlocker did not survive the flood, but many of its contents suffered only minor damage.
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The work is carried out in three gray wooden boxes the size of footlockers that house the colony.
Noun
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Yankees reliever Fernando Cruz also did his best to de-escalate things, calming Contreras and some of his teammates with pats on the chest.
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Wheeler grinned before Hill exchanged high-fives and chest bumps with right fielder Brandon Marsh.
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Merchandise was displayed in or atop packing crates and upended barrels.
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In a previous life, the wooden crate had been used by artist Robert Rauschenberg, widely regarded as the father of assemblage art in the United States, to house and transport his paintings before Basquiat incorporated it into his own work.
Noun
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The payoff is visible core definition and a more refined trunk workout.
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Police searched Zastrow’s bedroom and found a AR-15 style rifle on his bed and an AR-style rifle in the trunk of his vehicle.
Noun
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An unopened carton of heavy cream stored in the refrigerator generally lasts for a few weeks, and sometimes up to 30 days.
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With the price of eggs soaring—and no end in sight—every carton's freshness counts.
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.
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Picking up where episode 7 left off, Wayne (Toby Wallace) wakes up to Rue pillaging his safe.
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This lockbox is compact enough to fit in a carry-on bag or weekender tote, and has a tethering cable to affix it to a secure object.
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Inside, accessed via key in a lockbox, my friends and I were met with a cozy living space with low-profile seating, a nonworking fireplace, and a TV.
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“Sea chest.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sea%20chest. Accessed 29 Jun. 2026.
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