lock
Example Sentences
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The Trojans had previously been reluctant to lock in a long-term extension, given the uncertainty surrounding the future of the College Football Playoff format.
From Los Angeles Times
These materials settle on the ocean floor, locking carbon away for hundreds of millions of years and slowly reducing the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
From Science Daily
It was also a reckoning for the United States -- locked in a battle for dominance in AI tech with China -- on how far its archrival had come.
From Barron's
The firearm was in a locked position, he said.
Mortgage rates have fallen to their lowest level in a year, but millions of homeowners are still locked into ultralow mortgage rates they don’t want to give up.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
