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locket

[lok-it] / ˈlɒk ɪt /




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A diamond-studded locket swallowed by a New Zealand man who tried to steal it has been "recovered", police say.

From BBC ● Dec. 4, 2025

Between chatting nervously with my daughter and navigating the roads, it occurred to me that I’d forgotten my grandmother’s brass heart-shaped locket.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 28, 2025

He did not say to whom the locket belonged.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 10, 2025

The necklace and locket you gave your daughter for Christmas?

From Salon ● Dec. 10, 2024

“So you brought the locket home,” he said relentlessly, for he was determined to know the full story.

From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling

"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

“The way Nick forges his metals is special,” said Kevin Napoli, who purchased two of Berkofsky’s kitchen knives and a pair of cremation lockets for him and his son to carry his father’s ashes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 19, 2025

They were memorialized in art and photography; their hair became keepsakes tucked in lockets and pins.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 18, 2022

Now the pair has teamed up with Loquet, a jewelry company founded in London by Laura Bailey and Sheherazade Goldsmith that has built a cultish following for its 21st-century take on lockets.

From New York Times ● Apr. 11, 2018

There were girls with squeaky voices or soft altos, plump girls and thin ones, babyish girls who wore heart lockets and girls who were old before their time and worked as secretaries in insurance firms.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides




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