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At Slovakia's Gabcikovo dam, further upstream again, lock operations have slowed down, causing longer waiting times, and captains are being urged to check their vessels' navigability.

From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 2026

“If it were up to me, I would just lock myself in a room and not go anywhere. But people are like, ‘Hey, you want to come to Brazil?’”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026

And if you have been waiting to refinance or lock a mortgage rate, know that the long end of the bond market sets those rates, and the long end is the part under strain.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 28, 2026

As your editorial notes, current levels lock homeowners in place, creating a mismatch problem.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026

“You didn’t need to come,” I tell her as I lock up.

From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy

This rapid cooling locks in much of the magma's original chemical composition, giving scientists a valuable record of the conditions deep below the seafloor.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 29, 2026

The new chairman has said that providing forward guidance locks policymakers into positions that they may need to change.

From Barron's ● Jul. 26, 2026

It locks in carbon and releases oxygen back in to the environment.

From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026

His wife, drawn to soccer for the first time by Norway’s run and “Erling Haaland’s locks of golden hair,” requested an official Haaland kit.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 16, 2026

She cradles my face in her hands and locks eyes with me.

From "Shouting at the Rain" by Lynda Mullaly Hunt

China and the United States are locked in a race for dominance in the fast-moving AI field, fuelling huge global expansion of data centres -- warehouse-like facilities crammed with computer servers.

From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 2026

So Kaye was sending him to a residential treatment facility instead of a locked hospital.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026

Because leased customers are locked into the Apple ecosystem for the duration of their agreement, they could be incentivized to buy AppleCare insurance from the company.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 28, 2026

Their central supermassive black holes may then have become locked in a gravitational struggle that launched the lightest black hole toward the edge of the combined galaxy.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 28, 2026

I locked my phone and read my book until the bell rang.

From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows

Yet he later claimed in public that he never argued for locking anything down.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026

Many investors right now may turn their noses up at the idea of locking in a 3% yield for years or even decades, Elliott points out.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 23, 2026

The city is recommending “tamper-resistant steel cages around the units,” locking all exterior ladders and setting up motion-activated security cameras that would immediately notify business owners or landlords about unauthorized rooftop activity.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026

Under normal circumstances, the gravitational interaction between two closely orbiting stars would be expected to synchronize their motion through tidal locking.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 15, 2026

She could concentrate on locking her muscles, keeping herself from trembling.

From "The Strangers" by Margaret Peterson Haddix