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Recent Examples of sea chest
Chapter 1: The First Lieutenant Each man in the squadron carried, along with a sea chest, his own burdensome story.
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David Grann, The New Yorker, 28 Feb. 2023
The crack formed on a spot where two pieces were welded together and was hidden behind a sea chest that houses a fire pump, which is part of an onboard sprinkler system.
—Washington Post, 16 Sep. 2017
David Grann, The New Yorker, 28 Feb. 2023
The crack formed on a spot where two pieces were welded together and was hidden behind a sea chest that houses a fire pump, which is part of an onboard sprinkler system.
—Washington Post, 16 Sep. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sea chest
Noun
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Rarely did Ed McCaffrey open up his safe-deposit box to show off his Super Bowl rings, having also won with the 1997 and ’98 Denver Broncos.—
Cam Inman,
The Mercury News,
7 Feb. 2024
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An appeals court finds the FBI did violate rights of some Beverly Hills safe-deposit box holders.—
Anthony De Leon,
Los Angeles Times,
25 Jan. 2024
Noun
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Each room has six beds with bedbug-proof mattresses and a footlocker for personal effects.—
Doug Ross,
Chicago Tribune,
4 Feb. 2025
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His camp trunk, a traveling footlocker, now rests in the Smithsonian.—
Cynthia Greenlee,
Smithsonian Magazine,
10 Jan. 2023
Noun
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Officers saw Washington, stabbed in the chest, through a locked screen door lying on the floor.—
Meredith Colias-Pete,
Chicago Tribune,
22 Feb. 2025
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The unidentified driver reported that something flew through his windshield and struck him in the chest, according to Lyndsey Lantz with the Los Angeles Fire Department.—
Nathan Solis,
Los Angeles Times,
21 Feb. 2025
Noun
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It will be removed from its display case when conservation work begins in the fall of 2025, then packaged in a conservation crate before being moved to temporary reserves.—
Maureen O'Hare,
CNN,
20 Feb. 2025
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The foster mom in the van following on the ground—the two women take turns driving and flying—had to go back to the start, and then spend hours on the airfield, in the blistering sun, herding the birds into crates, before driving hours to rejoin the others.—
Nick Paumgarten,
The New Yorker,
10 Feb. 2025
Noun
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This philosophy extends to the viral Baller trunks, which were based on a 1970s photograph of basketball legend Larry Bird.—
Hannah Malach,
WWD,
20 Feb. 2025
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Yes, a front trunk, where an internal combustion engine would normally be.—
Sammy Roth,
Los Angeles Times,
20 Feb. 2025
Noun
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The carton of the product is plain white with a sticker label on one side and a code on the opposite side.—
Mark Joseph,
Newsweek,
24 Feb. 2025
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An Axios attempt to place an online order with H-E-B showed a limit of five cartons of eggs, though an H-E-B spokesperson told Axios there are no limits on eggs.—
Madalyn Mendoza,
Axios,
14 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Normally, landing a star of Dončić’s caliber at such a young age would take every fleck of gold in the safe.—
C. Clark, M. Vorkunov and F. Katz,
The Athletic,
17 Feb. 2025
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Prosecutors say the units also held power tools commonly used in burglaries and opening safes.—
Bill Chappell,
NPR,
11 Feb. 2025
Noun
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For workers to come fix the Wi-Fi, we were instructed to leave the key in a lockbox.—
Seth Kugel,
New York Times,
13 Feb. 2025
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Anatomy Financial, a digital document lockbox provider for health care practices, raised a $19 million Series A, CEO Sasha King tells Axios exclusively.—
Aaron Weitzman,
Axios,
17 Dec. 2024
Cite this Entry
“Sea chest.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sea%20chest. Accessed 4 Mar. 2025.
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