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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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Examples are money, unclaimed insurance proceeds and items in safe-deposit boxes.—
Jim Saunders,
Sun Sentinel,
19 May 2025
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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
Noun
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The work is carried out in three gray wooden boxes the size of footlockers that house the colony.—
Corey Kilgannon,
New York Times,
13 May 2025
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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
Noun
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The bra featured clusters of the stone to cover up her chest, but added a fun flair with the addition of dangling stones that hung off of the cups of the bra.—
Starr Bowenbank,
People.com,
28 May 2025
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Cold case solved over 50 years after a young mom was killed, her 3-year-old daughter left alive The victim -- 54-year-old grandmother Vivian Moss -- was found dismembered with multiple stab wounds to the chest in San Jose on July 11, 1981.—
Meredith Deliso,
ABC News,
28 May 2025
Noun
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That cargo is then loaded onto container handlers that operate exclusively within the confines of the port, bringing the crates closer to the roads or rail lines that will take them further.—
Tim Stevens,
ArsTechnica,
19 May 2025
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Statues are shown tagged and wrapped before shipment, sealed in wooden crates, drilled shut as if in reverse enslavement, and soon to be carted away by a white crew wearing Covid masks.—
Armond White,
National Review,
16 May 2025
Noun
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That extra room has been used to install a set of shelves behind the driver and passenger seats that each have a strap to hold bags in place and increase trunk size.—
Bryan Hood,
Robb Report,
27 May 2025
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These occur in younger dogs and, while usually on legs or the trunk, can be on the skin near the eyelid margins.—
Dr. John De Jong,
Boston Herald,
25 May 2025
Noun
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In one Facebook post, a resident offered a carton of instant coffee in exchange for a small bag of flour.—
Taylor Luck,
Christian Science Monitor,
28 May 2025
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Another popular physics party trick is to walk on several cartons of eggs without breaking them.—
Jennifer Ouellette,
ArsTechnica,
26 May 2025
Noun
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The vessel is thought to contain watertight safes in which Lynch kept highly encrypted hard drives.—
Barbie Latza Nadeau,
CNN Money,
20 May 2025
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Yosemite National Park in California, which has locks on hundreds of structures and safes, saw its only locksmith fired; a court later ordered his reinstatement.—
Steve Chapman,
Chicago Tribune,
7 May 2025
Noun
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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
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For instance, in 2010, a 2-year-old boy fatally shot himself with a gun his mother had left in a dresser drawer, forgetting to put it in her lockbox.—
John Diedrich,
USA TODAY,
14 Dec. 2024
Cite this Entry
“Sea chest.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sea%20chest. Accessed 5 Jun. 2025.
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