locked-in
Example Sentences
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Rather than granting you outright shares, options give you the right to purchase company stock at a specific, locked-in “strike price.”
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 23, 2026
Surging prices of standard memory have temporarily made locked-in HBM contracts less profitable, pushing manufacturers to negotiate much higher rates for next-generation technology.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 2, 2026
It could also throw into question whether major economies - including the UK, Japan and South Korea - are locked-in to the individual trade deals they secured with the US ahead of the August deadline.
From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2025
The scientists brimmed with excitement over the potentially life-altering medical applications of such a device — restoring communication to people with locked-in syndrome, for instance, whose near full-body paralysis made talking impossible.
From Salon ● Jan. 18, 2024
I took these techniques, these ways of seeing and feeling, and twisted them, bent them, adapted them, until they became my ways of apprehending the locked-in life of the Black Belt areas.
From "Native Son" by Richard Wright
