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Recent Examples of safe-deposit boxThe company offers discounts to policyholders with a home security system, a home safe, a gemstone grading report, or storage in a bank vault or safe-deposit box.—Ben Luthi, wsj.com, 22 Nov. 2023 Confined to the safe-deposit box, the stamp wasn’t exposed to light, nor was it ever affixed to a hinge, which collectors use to put stamps in albums.—Jonathan Edwards, Washington Post, 13 Nov. 2023 In response, Olsson positioned the hostages under the hole with nooses around their necks, the ropes attached to the top of a row of safe-deposit boxes.—Donald Beaulieu, Washington Post, 23 Aug. 2023 Two banks in Texas have been robbed; in both cases, the culprits have only taken a single safe-deposit box.—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 11 May 2023 See all Example Sentences for safe-deposit box
For example, if the world’s total gold deposits could be centrally certified and shares issued for buying these reserves, the same purpose could be served as stockpiling gold in a vault.
Saleem H. Ali,
Forbes,
20 Dec. 2024
Imagine a film archivist scouring an underground vault in Burbank or a cave in Butte, Montana, and discovering a few dozen dusty film canisters tucked away in a corner.
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.
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