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Recent Examples of strongboxThe strongbox, which is painted with flowers and birds, has a false keyhole on the front; the real keyhole is hidden underneath a bolt on its lid.—
Shayla Love,
New Yorker,
10 Oct. 2026 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 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
Macura, whose businesses also span retail and construction, is suspected of illegally moving 45 billion dinars ($428 million) out of Alta Bank’s vault.
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ABC News,
ABC News,
2 Nov. 2026
Meanwhile, in the predawn morning sky, Venus literally vaults into prominence as the month progresses.
Apartments could come with little more than a sink, leaving tenants to supply everything from shelves to food safes.
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Tara Anne Dalbow,
Architectural Digest,
21 Oct. 2026
Utilize 24/7 alarms with CCTV to monitor the perimeter of your business, the inside, and any objects or merchandise that may be targeted, such as ATMs, safes, and cash registers.
Not a bad move at all for an always-camera-ready CA pol like Gavin Newsom with DC ambitions and donor coffers to fill.
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Dominic Patten,
Deadline,
2 Nov. 2026
African countries have been hit hard by surging global energy prices this year, which have strained public coffers and prompted several to announce plans to develop new oil and gas fields or build domestic refineries.