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lock

noun as in device that fastens and bars free passage

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Sulfur can exist as a gas in the atmosphere, as sulfate dissolved in seawater, or locked within mineral deposits.

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“I always have the door locked,” said the dual Mexican and U.S. citizen in Spanish.

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Unco-operative workers were locked in small dark rooms and starved or beaten until they gave in.

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He made a mistake, locking up into Turn One, on his first run in qualifying and was 10th going into the final laps with Piastri fastest.

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Through their frenetic search for scores, Scotland were only liberating New Zealand instead of locking them up and throwing away the key, as clinical teams would do.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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