vault 1 of 3

as in tomb
an underground burial chamber archaeologists were thrilled to discover an ancient vault that hadn't been looted by grave robbers

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vault

2 of 3

noun (2)

as in leap
an act of leaping into the air a vault over the car's hood by the frightened deer

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vault

3 of 3

verb

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Noun
Fans who unlock the vault after all of the hourly BOGO codes aren't out of luck, either — players who guess the burrito correctly after the prizes for the hour run out will receive 25 rewards points in their Chipotle Rewards account one time during the campaign, while available. Charlotte Phillipp, People.com, 31 Mar. 2025 Centralized Secrets Storage • Use a dedicated secrets management vault such as HashiCorp Vault, AWS Secrets Manager or Azure Key Vault. • Avoid storing credentials in plaintext files, environment variables or source code repositories. 2. Srikanth Mandru, Forbes, 25 Mar. 2025
Verb
Louis Lappe, who vaulted into the national spotlight with his walk-off home run for El Segundo during the 2023 Little League World Series, has made his high school choice. Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 16 Mar. 2025 The resounding team success owes a tip of the cap to SGA, who has vaulted himself into the MVP discussion with Jokic. Bennett Durando, The Denver Post, 8 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for vault
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Verb
  • Its biggest gain comes on the all-genre Billboard 200, where Greatest Hits leaps 16 spaces, improving from No. 93 to No. 77.
    Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 31 Mar. 2025
  • My hair, previously a sort of pixie cut mullet with a middle part, has somehow leapt across my scalp in the night and settled into a side fringe.
    Daisy Jones, Vogue, 30 Mar. 2025
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  • Medium-sized dogs can potentially jump up to 7 or 8 feet in the air, or even higher.
    Gordon G. Chang, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Apr. 2025
  • All three Atlantic seeds are in flux, and the Senators are even pushing to jump from wild-card standing to divisional slots.
    Shayna Goldman, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2025
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  • Solana Beach Children’s Spring Festival and Egg Hunt Solana Beach’s Children’s Spring Festival & Egg Hunt hops into La Colonia Community Park on Saturday, April 19 at 10:30 a.m.
    Ut Community Press, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Apr. 2025
  • The lighthearted post comes just a few days after Cardi hopped on Instagram for a more disheartening reason.
    Mackenzie Cummings-Grady, Billboard, 1 Apr. 2025

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“Vault.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/vault. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.

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