lock

"This year I'll be like 'no, lock in, lock in!'"

From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026

A study of nearly 5,000 schools nationwide that lock student phones in Yondr pouches found them to be an effective way to curb student phone use.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 2026

Sanitation workers were cleaning the area, cutting down trees, and erecting a new fence and lock to keep out trespassers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026

Clearly, these features aren’t made for discovery; they’re a way to lock users into a doomscroll.

From Salon ● Aug. 27, 2026

I exit the room, lock my door, and hear Colin’s voice as I descend the stairs.

From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin

Today’s cybersecurity depends on mathematical locks that are effectively impossible for ordinary computers to crack, but that could be vulnerable to quantum computers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026

The agency has imposed restrictions on irrigation, while limiting how much certain locks can open to reduce the loss of fresh water and to prevent too much salt water from entering the network.

From Barron's ● Aug. 15, 2026

A CD locks your money away for a set term — and in exchange, locks in your rate for that same term.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 10, 2026

Success Academy has dark millwork lockers with no locks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026

His pointer nose, then pointer eyes, then pointer stance locks on a squirrel up ahead.

From "A Bird Will Soar" by Alison Green Myers

Those powers would block foreign prisoners from ever returning to the country while "keeping those in prison for the most serious crimes locked up for a substantial period before they are removed".

From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2026

So, funds rolled into a plan with such a provision are not as locked up as one might think.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 29, 2026

European and Asian buyers are locked in a bidding war over constrained supplies from the Middle East.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026

“I don’t know if we blew a tire but it feels like the brakes locked up,” a pilot is heard saying in the video.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026

He stared at the dragon, and it locked eyes with him.

From "Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher" by Bruce Coville

Olympic organizers have sold more than 6 million tickets, locking in a significant piece of funding for what they promise will be a privately funded Games.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026

He added: "Some of those habitats are really important at drawing down and locking away carbon."

From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026

Back to my question: If I sell $1,000 worth of stock now, wouldn’t I essentially be locking in my gains, just like selling during a market downturn would mean locking in my losses?

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 11, 2026

At around 8 p.m., night shift workers shut down every gallery in South Hall, locking every prisoner inside his cell, including the porter, who sometimes acts as an additional set of eyes and ears.

From Slate ● Aug. 11, 2026

What’s the point of locking the other Edith inside a box in the attic?

From "I Can Make This Promise" by Christine Day