locked

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Liliana’s 15-year-old daughter, Nicole, specializes in the Globe of Death, where she gets in the locked cage with her cousin Judith, also 15; together they maneuver the motorbikes around the globe at opposing-intersecting paths.

From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2026

So he kept a chain-link gate to the trail locked.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 16, 2026

The Unite union said some staff at the site were told the leave via a particular route, only to find the gate they had been directed to was locked with combination locks.

From BBC • May 16, 2026

"Given the geopolitical context, some of them are afraid of just getting locked out of US tech solutions," she said.

From Barron's • May 15, 2026

“They were locked in,” Callaway said as he began pulling leather shoes off the rack and holding them out for us to try on.

From "Glitch" by Laura Martin