locket
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Saqib wears a locket shaped like a map of pre-partition Punjab around his neck and plans to visit Lahore.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 21, 2026
Partridge Jewellers said the locket will be returned to Fabergé, Radio NZ reported.
From BBC ● Dec. 4, 2025
He did not say to whom the locket belonged.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 10, 2025
I was chatting this week with some colleagues about the locket, about what animates someone to buy a pricey piece of jewelry that’s being sold as a merchandise tie-in for a movie.
From New York Times ● Nov. 11, 2023
This was neither as large as the locket he remembered seeing in the Pensieve, nor were there any markings upon it, no sign of the ornate S that was supposed to be Slytherin’s mark.
From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling
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"Jewellery and lockets, people tend to know there's generally value in it. But when it comes to trading cards and collectables, people tend to overlook them."
From BBC ● Mar. 27, 2026
Redlands business Precious Creature initially only offered full-body taxidermy of pets until customers started suggesting other ideas, such as lockets containing patches of fur and cat-tail necklaces.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 23, 2025
Victorians braided their loved ones’ hair into rings and lockets, and Iman’s perfume is, in a sense, a Victorian mourning gesture.
From New York Times ● Nov. 18, 2021
Stephanie Mercedes dangles dozens of antique lockets in memory of Argentina’s “disappeared” and has scored the installation to the chants of mothers who protested in Buenos Aires.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 14, 2019
In the America of the 1790s, Washington’s image was everywhere, in paintings, prints, lockets; on coins, silverware, plates, and household bric-a-brac.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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