lockbox

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Recent Examples of lockbox Humphries developed a system that secures barber tools in a lockbox built into the back of the barber chair, ensuring compliance with Denver International Airport's security requirements while still delivering a high-quality experience. Justin Adams, CBS News, 26 Mar. 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 See All Example Sentences for lockbox
Recent Examples of Synonyms for lockbox
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
Noun
  • Step Up in October signed the settlement agreement to repay the state $3 million that was supposed to fund new housing in Salinas, but instead went to the nonprofit’s coffers.
    Theresa Clift, Sacbee.com, 29 June 2026
  • The desire to recoup tariff revenue and refill the Treasury’s coffers, now being depleted by refunds to importers, is a preeminent priority.
    Kate Nishimura, Footwear News, 26 June 2026
Noun
  • Common options include home safes, bank safe-deposit boxes and third-party bullion depositories.
    Roxanne Downer, USA Today, 28 Apr. 2026
  • 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
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
  • Look for airtight and waterproof containers or safes to protect your most important documents from moisture damage, mildew, mold, warping, or wrinkling.
    Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 29 June 2026
  • In 2025, the program distributed 488 gun safes and 3,523 cable locks to the community.
    Lina Ruiz, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 27 June 2026
Noun
  • 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, 2 July 2026
  • For those looking for simple car camping (beginner) Each of these campgrounds are in Angeles National Forest, offer piped water and vault toilets, and have sites with picnic tables, parking spots and campfire rings.
    Jaclyn Cosgrove, Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2026
Noun
  • The impersonal nature of safe burial practices and the severity of the epidemic were evident Friday as only healthcare workers in protective gear were allowed to handle the coffin and the burial.
    Justin Kabumba, Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2026
  • Carrying a cross, people stood at a distance as the small coffin was lowered into the ground by masked and gloved health workers, and a Catholic priest prayed over her body.
    ABC News, ABC News, 19 June 2026

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“Lockbox.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lockbox. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.

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