safe-deposit box
Example Sentences
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In previous years, schemes touting investors’ ability to hold IRA-designated gold at home or in a safe-deposit box left customers with six-figure tax bills.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 24, 2025
The FBI gave Los Angeles mother Linda Martin the silent treatment for more than two years before finally returning the money it had seized from her safe-deposit box.
From Slate • Aug. 10, 2023
New Jersey law requires a bank to bring in an independent notary when it opens and empties a safe-deposit box, and to place the box’s contents in a sealed package signed by the notary.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 20, 2019
In 2013, at a friend’s urging, Mrs. Thomas returned to the Washington bank where she had stored her husband’s old black-leather briefcase in a safe-deposit box.
From Washington Post • Mar. 20, 2019
They staked out the doll shop, and they examined Dickinson’s bank account and safe-deposit box.
From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield
