hope chest

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Recent Examples of hope chest While the tradition of a hope chest has its roots thousands of years ago, cedar became the material du jour thanks to its insect-repelling qualities. Heather Bien, Southern Living, 6 Sep. 2024 My grad school dissertation explored hope chests and wedding traditions among Turkish women. Ayla Samli, Longreads, 14 May 2024 The only item that appeared to be missing was a .357-caliber pistol Jean kept in her hope chest. Dateline Nbc, NBC News, 6 Dec. 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hope chest
Noun
  • The caisson becomes part of the finished structure.
    Ari Perez, The Conversation, 10 June 2024
  • Using a caisson is another way to provide a dry area at a site that is typically underwater.
    Ari Perez, The Conversation, 10 June 2024
Noun
  • Down the street is the artist Jack Pierson’s Elliott Templeton Fine Arts, a jewel box of a space devoted to delicate ideas strongly executed.
    The New Yorker, The New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2024
  • The rooms are jewel boxes with the near-requisite Murano glass chandeliers.
    Everett Potter, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • The trajectory of another famous figure in the Warner Bros. vault offers an example, Oberschelp says.
    Jennifer Maas, Variety, 5 Nov. 2024
  • Last year, Carey’s video saw the singer being unfrozen from a vault just in time for Nov. 1.
    Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 1 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • Such stand-alone films were screened in civic spaces, canteens, army venues, trade union halls as well as cinemas.
    Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 Oct. 2024
  • Smith lost her telephone, tablet and canteen privileges for 90 days, beginning Oct. 4.
    Mollie Markowitz, Fox News, 16 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • Methamphetamine worth $5 million has been discovered in the secret compartment of a truck near the Texas border with Mexico.
    David Faris, Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2024
  • Multiple compartments throughout the body contain muscles, nerves, and blood vessels.
    Amy Kwan, Verywell Health, 1 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • Chapter 1: The First Lieutenant Each man in the squadron carried, along with a sea chest, his own burdensome story.
    David Grann, The New Yorker, 28 Feb. 2023
  • The crack formed on a spot where two pieces were welded together and was hidden behind a sea chest that houses a fire pump, which is part of an onboard sprinkler system.
    Washington Post, Washington Post, 16 Sep. 2017
Noun
  • Rarely did Ed McCaffrey open up his safe-deposit box to show off his Super Bowl rings, having also won with the 1997 and ’98 Denver Broncos.
    Cam Inman, The Mercury News, 7 Feb. 2024
  • An appeals court finds the FBI did violate rights of some Beverly Hills safe-deposit box holders.
    Anthony De Leon, Los Angeles Times, 25 Jan. 2024

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“Hope chest.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hope%20chest. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.

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