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Recent Examples of strongboxExcusing 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 Another artifact reflecting the sharp divides between rich and poor is an elaborate 800-pound steel strongbox that would have been used to store money—a great deal of it—in the home.—
Teresa Nowakowski,
Smithsonian Magazine,
20 Nov. 2023 By August 3, Bitcoin had rebounded by 15% to $23,300, raising the value of MicroStrategy’s strongbox by around $400 million.—
Shawn Tully,
Fortune,
3 Aug. 2022 By the time the duke and a boat containing his strongbox of memoirs and political documents were loaded, only one other boat was able to escape.—
Ashley Strickland,
CNN,
17 June 2022 Today the sacred strongbox largely is in the hands of the cultural Left.—
John D. Hagen,
National Review,
20 Aug. 2020 Police were called and found that two rings were missing from the master closet, where a strongbox had been moved and pried open.—
Thomas Jewell,
cleveland,
30 Jan. 2020
Renovate a radiation-oncology vault, modernize the emergency department, build a cardiology clinic, add telehealth at two rural clinics, and deploy mobile mammography.
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Arkansas Democrat-Gazette,
Arkansas Online,
27 Aug. 2026
When stored in the cloud, a user’s videos will be kept in what Ring says is effectively a secure digital vault to which only the user has the key.
The event featured live music, free giveaways that included Chromebooks, gas cards and biometric gun safes, and presentations from guests who spoke about safety.
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David Sharos,
Chicago Tribune,
16 Aug. 2026
The group shattered windows, stole or attempted to steal cash, register drawers and safes.
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Caroline Zimmerman,
Kansas City Star,
7 Aug. 2026