padlock
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The funding mechanisms are complicated, the language antiquated and much about the income remains under a padlock of privacy.
From BBC ● May 14, 2026
The first and only response to that invitation was to ask him to put a padlock on the door to the storage room full of boxed documents.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 26, 2025
Not necessarily a designer one, but a handbag with a strong sense of itself — an acid-green baguette bag, a wicker orb with a padlock, a cheetah-print apothecary satchel.
From Salon ● Dec. 20, 2025
Saint Laurent’s latest offering — understated black leather with a charming gold padlock hanging off the handle — offers the user a graceful chicness that more than justifies the price tag.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 4, 2025
Suddenly, the door shook as the guard gave the chained padlock a rattle.
From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo
Inspired by a trend in Paris, couples attached metal padlocks and threw the keys into the East River.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 10, 2026
Sensing my interest in the cluster of irregular towers, he stood up, produced a large key ring and began opening a series of padlocks.
From New York Times ● Jun. 5, 2024
When they arrived 30 minutes later, they were unable to close the flood gate as the force of water was too strong to stand up in and padlocks were submerged.
From BBC ● Nov. 22, 2023
The utility informed authorities the padlocks were cut and the high side breakers turned off.
From Washington Times ● Jan. 4, 2023
He had put padlocks on both front and back doors, and both were locked.
From "Z for Zachariah" by Robert C. O’Brien
Sindorf left in May 2024 but padlocked the unit behind him, preventing Vivos from taking possession.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 26, 2026
But residents can no longer view the bright autumn colours of the tree of life, a symbol often painted by Behzad, as the wooden door has been padlocked shut.
From Barron's ● Feb. 4, 2026
In March, the clinic doors had been padlocked for two weeks when she developed vomiting and diarrhea.
From Salon ● Dec. 16, 2025
One of the storage tanks that supplies water for firefighting purposes in Malibu stands behind a “no trespassing” sign and a padlocked chain-link gate topped with barbed wire.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 24, 2025
Scarlett pulled at them desperately, but the gates were padlocked for the night.
From "The Graveyard Book" by Neil Gaiman
She’s laid off half the staff and joked about padlocking the door.
From Salon ● Oct. 9, 2025
And a law that was passed primarily with climate protesters in its sights, who have taken to gluing themselves to roads and padlocking themselves to this, that and the other.
From BBC ● May 9, 2023
“It would be a terrible shame if someone were to buy it and then start padlocking it. They’ve done so much work to it, it’s quite amazing,” Bell & Co.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 27, 2022
The once-taciturn 19-year-old turned into a team leader and occasional jokester, once padlocking together the typewriters of three Montreal reporters.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 6, 2020
But most of the stores were closed and the owners had pulled the metal gates down over the front windows and doors, padlocking them shut.
From "The Book of Unknown Americans" by Cristina Henríquez
