locked-in
Example Sentences
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Homeowners in pricey areas are still locked in because selling their current home and buying a comparable one could potentially double or even triple their monthly mortgage payment.
From MarketWatch
Many technology firms, including Google and IBM, are currently locked in a multi-billion dollar race to revolutionise how we push fields like AI even further - in the form of quantum computing.
From BBC
Pliny the Younger, the sole eyewitness to leave an account of the tragedy, likened the experience to being locked in a room in which the lamp had gone out.
Billionaires whose wealth is often locked in company stakes and not liquid could go bankrupt, Palihapitiya wrote on X.
From Los Angeles Times
Then, a silence like being locked in a bank vault.
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