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"They say education is the key, but honestly speaking we never find the padlock open," Daniel told AFP.

From Barron's ● Jul. 13, 2026

The first and only response to that invitation was to ask him to put a padlock on the door to the storage room full of boxed documents.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 26, 2025

Not necessarily a designer one, but a handbag with a strong sense of itself — an acid-green baguette bag, a wicker orb with a padlock, a cheetah-print apothecary satchel.

From Salon ● Dec. 20, 2025

Kelly Grigg, the owner of the centre at Winnard's Perch, said the bolt and padlock to one of its aviaries had been "hit with force".

From BBC ● Nov. 15, 2025

Deliberately, making a wholly unnecessary display of fitting the key and turning it, he opened the padlock and loosened the chain and swung the gates just wide enough for the car to come through.

From "The Haunting of Hill House" by Shirley Jackson

Inspired by a trend in Paris, couples attached metal padlocks and threw the keys into the East River.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 10, 2026

Like the padlocks left on the Pont des Arts bridge in Paris, people often leave the coins behind for love or luck.

From BBC ● May 27, 2025

Sensing my interest in the cluster of irregular towers, he stood up, produced a large key ring and began opening a series of padlocks.

From New York Times ● Jun. 5, 2024

There’s also a large metal “Love” sign at the visitors’ center, where people attach padlocks engraved with names and messages of love.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 13, 2024

It was pretty obvious that Henrietta doesn’t know how to open padlocks on her own.

From "Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer" by Kelly Jones

Sindorf left in May 2024 but padlocked the unit behind him, preventing Vivos from taking possession.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 26, 2026

But residents can no longer view the bright autumn colours of the tree of life, a symbol often painted by Behzad, as the wooden door has been padlocked shut.

From Barron's ● Feb. 4, 2026

In March, the clinic doors had been padlocked for two weeks when she developed vomiting and diarrhea.

From Salon ● Dec. 16, 2025

An employee padlocked a metal gate between the shop’s glass front door and its sales floor when approached by a reporter in September.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 7, 2023

Brave Orchid’s husband had padlocked one large bottom cabinet and one drawer.

From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston

Instead of abruptly padlocking our door, as most restaurants do, we’d give everyone four months’ notice.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026

She’s laid off half the staff and joked about padlocking the door.

From Salon ● Oct. 9, 2025

And a law that was passed primarily with climate protesters in its sights, who have taken to gluing themselves to roads and padlocking themselves to this, that and the other.

From BBC ● May 9, 2023

“It would be a terrible shame if someone were to buy it and then start padlocking it. They’ve done so much work to it, it’s quite amazing,” Bell & Co.

From Washington Times ● Nov. 27, 2022

But most of the stores were closed and the owners had pulled the metal gates down over the front windows and doors, padlocking them shut.

From "The Book of Unknown Americans" by Cristina Henríquez