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locked-in

adjective as in booked

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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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Wolves had an approach to speak to Edwards rejected by Boro on Thursday and the manager was locked in talks with members of the Championship club's hierarchy on Friday.

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She pushed him away and spent the night locked in her car before complaining to her superior officers in the morning.

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He’d been immediately captured, flown to Moscow, and locked in prison.

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With this weaponry, the RSF is locked in a strategic stalemate with its former partner, the Sudanese army.

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

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