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safe-deposit vault

noun as in safe-deposit box

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The Metropolitan, when he brought them to the United States, had put them in a safe-deposit vault, and he had made them the charge of a trust, the trustees of which were Syrians of the Metropolitan’s own church.

Luhn told Sherman that Ailes kept an incriminating videotape of her in a safe-deposit vault, as a form of insurance.

She always went to the same places—first to the Monterey County Bank where she was admitted behind the shining bars that defended the safe-deposit vault.

Clients’ names were “locked away in a safe-deposit vault” and, when he was brought to trial by the city’s licensing commission, in the summer of 1939, none of his former clients or escorts came forward to defend him.

The sordid greed and annoying persistence of this man has much embarrassed me, and I would pay him off entirely, if it were not that I wish to get my personal property out of my ‘uncle’s’ safe-deposit vault, where it has been resting for some time.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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