locked-in
Example Sentences
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Rather than granting you outright shares, options give you the right to purchase company stock at a specific, locked-in “strike price.”
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 23, 2026
The brokerage conservatively expects the Indonesian company’s 2026 net profit to grow threefold this year, based on locked-in charter rates in May through mid-June at levels above 2025 averages, and incremental vessel additions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026
Still, Riley isn’t ready to commit to the current five up front as his locked-in starters.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2025
It could also throw into question whether major economies - including the UK, Japan and South Korea - are locked-in to the individual trade deals they secured with the US ahead of the August deadline.
From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2025
I took these techniques, these ways of seeing and feeling, and twisted them, bent them, adapted them, until they became my ways of apprehending the locked-in life of the Black Belt areas.
From "Native Son" by Richard Wright
