locked in
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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Once seated and locked in, it nearly immediately takes off, jetting riders into a darkened hallway with white lights before injecting them into a Lego galaxy.
From Los Angeles Times
Despite recent headlines, the AI industry’s heavyweights remain locked in a high-velocity arms race with no end in sight.
From MarketWatch
But having made a league-best 36 consecutive free throws, Durant then missed two in a row, leaving his team -- who are locked in a tight race for the third seed in the West -- agonizingly short.
From Barron's
While King is locked in for at least another year, there is a search underway for at least one new co-host on the program.
From Los Angeles Times
Large tech companies are just beginning to share financial details on the massive amounts of power they’ve locked in to run their AI data centers.
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