lock up
Example Sentences
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The increase reflects new agreements with cloud-computing providers as OpenAI races to lock up the enormous amounts of computing capacity it needs to develop and run its AI models.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
"Without this decisive action, prisons will run out of space entirely as early as November and we will be unable to lock up serious offenders at all," they said.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026
Why lock up deodorant when a company could use that cash to pay their employees enough to stop living paycheck-to-paycheck?
From Salon ● May 22, 2026
Cypress 3, Villa Park 0: Drew Slevcove threw the shutout with nine strikeouts to lock up the league championship.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 29, 2026
Mama had stayed up until Master came home and Ugwu was in the kitchen, half asleep, waiting to lock up.
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
