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Recent Examples of lockbox
Hallorann, now plagued by aggrieved spirits after opening his mental lockbox, sees a headless ghost slouching towards him through the flames.
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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
In episode 5, Dick Hallorann (Chris Chalk) delves into his traumatic past, when his grandfather Andy (Andrew Moodie) breaks open his lockbox of negative psychic memories.
—Christopher Rudolph, PEOPLE, 24 Nov. 2025
Various extra items are also included with each pack, such as a tent, sleeping bag, rain poncho, radio, flashlight, ID card, socks, lockbox, hygiene kit, water bottle, and an informational brochure listing 15 local partnering services.
—New Atlas, 3 Nov. 2025
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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
In episode 5, Dick Hallorann (Chris Chalk) delves into his traumatic past, when his grandfather Andy (Andrew Moodie) breaks open his lockbox of negative psychic memories.
—Christopher Rudolph, PEOPLE, 24 Nov. 2025
Various extra items are also included with each pack, such as a tent, sleeping bag, rain poncho, radio, flashlight, ID card, socks, lockbox, hygiene kit, water bottle, and an informational brochure listing 15 local partnering services.
—New Atlas, 3 Nov. 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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With the effects of the federal cuts expected to be felt across the state, other California counties have already started to look to consumers to replenish government coffers.—
Rebecca Ellis,
Los Angeles Times,
11 Feb. 2026
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Slowly, along the 1,553-mile coast, a smattering of smaller boutique hotels have started to pop up, fueling a tourism boom that contributed more than $220 million to the government's coffers in 2024.—
Lisa Grainger,
Condé Nast Traveler,
10 Feb. 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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Jay Reed's business is cutting keys and selling safes at the Fort Worth Stock Show and Rodeo.—
Bo Evans,
CBS News,
4 Feb. 2026
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Hillbilly hippies with dreadlock beards buried safes in the woods containing hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash.—
Scott Eden,
Rolling Stone,
1 Feb. 2026
Noun
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If Nintendo keeps a padlock on its secrets, then Miyamoto’s mind is a bank vault.—
Chris Plante,
Vulture,
10 Feb. 2026
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With light slanting in from a row of windows eight stories above the floor, and an immense vault above, the drill hall has a sacramental feel.—
Justin Davidson,
Curbed,
10 Feb. 2026
Noun
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On Friday, September 5, the coffin was moved to Kensington Palace; the following morning, she was buried at Althorp.—
Emma Banks,
InStyle,
6 Feb. 2026
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Mourners carried his coffin in the town of Bani Walid, 91 miles southeast of the capital, Tripoli, as well as large photographs of both Seif al-Islam, who was known mostly by his first name, and his father.—
Yousef Murad,
Los Angeles Times,
6 Feb. 2026
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“Lockbox.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lockbox. Accessed 15 Feb. 2026.
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