lock up
Example Sentences
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"Every day we get reports of, horses, dogs, pigs, goats, everything. So many animals being either stranded, abandoned, locked up and chained," Kenny said.
From BBC
“They’re locked up in a storage unit,” she says with a laugh.
From Los Angeles Times
Those institutions were willing to lock up their dollars with hotshot managers for years, giving them authority on how to invest them.
The deal offered an early window into Nvidia’s strategy to look beyond the GPU to lock up pockets of the AI market.
Amina says some of her staff were locked up for a few days more than five years ago.
From BBC
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