locked-in
Example Sentences
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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
A MarketWatch analysis of federal data also found that in the third quarter of 2025, there were more locked-in homeowners in states where housing is more expensive than in other parts of the country.
From MarketWatch • Jan. 7, 2026
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
The scientists brimmed with excitement over the potentially life-altering medical applications of such a device — restoring communication to people with locked-in syndrome, for instance, whose near full-body paralysis made talking impossible.
From Salon • Jan. 18, 2024
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
