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Recent Examples of lockbox
Unlike so many other places in Europe, with their EasyJet hubs and lockbox-enabled Airbnbs, the Jungfrau region's hospitality is, at this point, part of the traditional culture of the area—not some frantic, ad hoc adjustment made in the past decade.
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Alice Gregory, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 Feb. 2026
As a closed loop with its own revenue, the meter arrangement might end up in a lockbox outside of any restructuring.
—The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 22 Jan. 2026
Hallorann, now plagued by aggrieved spirits after opening his mental lockbox, sees a headless ghost slouching towards him through the flames.
—Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 15 Dec. 2025
Seeing his distress, his grandmother taught him how to keep unwanted spirits in a mental lockbox, and now that Pennywise has opened it, he’s once again surrounded by ghosts.
—Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 1 Dec. 2025
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Alice Gregory, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 Feb. 2026
As a closed loop with its own revenue, the meter arrangement might end up in a lockbox outside of any restructuring.
—The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 22 Jan. 2026
Hallorann, now plagued by aggrieved spirits after opening his mental lockbox, sees a headless ghost slouching towards him through the flames.
—Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 15 Dec. 2025
Seeing his distress, his grandmother taught him how to keep unwanted spirits in a mental lockbox, and now that Pennywise has opened it, he’s once again surrounded by ghosts.
—Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 1 Dec. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for lockbox
Noun
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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
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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
Noun
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The longer oil prices remain high, the more billions the Kremlin adds to its coffers to fund the war.—
Sudarsan Raghavan,
New Yorker,
28 Apr. 2026
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Regardless of the source, all that crypto spending represented real value flowing back into the coffers of Gala Games, justifying the minimum guarantee that Brink says Gala paid to Legacy developer 22cans.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
27 Apr. 2026
Noun
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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.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
24 Nov. 2025
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Put all hard copies in a safe-deposit box or keep them at a separate property, or store all documentation in the cloud (never hurts to do both!).—
Janet Arzt,
Forbes.com,
16 June 2025
Noun
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My dad’s footlocker did not survive the flood, but many of its contents suffered only minor damage.—
Kathy Barnes,
Better Homes & Gardens,
10 July 2025
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The work is carried out in three gray wooden boxes the size of footlockers that house the colony.—
Corey Kilgannon,
New York Times,
13 May 2025
Noun
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Home safes are typically the most convenient and accessible choice, especially for smaller holdings like a few gold coins.—
Faith Wakefield,
USA Today,
22 Apr. 2026
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According to investigators, the suspects typically forced entry by breaking windows and doors, then raided safes inside the homes.—
Abby Dodge,
CBS News,
18 Apr. 2026
Noun
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They were found in a basement vault big enough to walk into, authorities said.—
Emily Blackwood,
PEOPLE,
23 Apr. 2026
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As the video demonstrates, von Ensingen’s drawing (not in the show, alas) collapses all the levels, complete with stairs, setbacks, vaults, and columns, onto a single plane.—
Justin Davidson,
Curbed,
23 Apr. 2026
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His coffin was carried home on the Cotton Belt rail line to Rector, where he is buried.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
25 Apr. 2026
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Flowers are thrown over the coffin of journalist Amal Khalil, who was killed in an Israeli strike on April 22, 2026, as mourners carry it during her funeral in Baisariyeh, Lebanon, April 23, 2026.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
24 Apr. 2026
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“Lockbox.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lockbox. Accessed 1 May. 2026.
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