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box

[boks] / bɒks /


VERB
place in square or rectangular container
Synonyms
Antonyms
WEAK




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At Labour's conference last month, Housing Secretary Angela Rayner joked that her emergency box, external would include a bottle of Sauvignon Blanc wine.

From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026

United Parcel Service became a global behemoth by putting smaller companies in a box.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

At Chicago’s Music Box Theater, one of metropolitan America’s premier destinations for arthouse cinema, screenings sold out in a flash, accounting for the second largest share of the restoration’s opening-weekend box office.

From Salon ● Oct. 22, 2026

That year, Fochesato went to the box office and was shown a large menu of available seats.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

I’ve been looking through the box of things again and I found something that felt like another fragment of a clue.

From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler


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