locked in
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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An out-of work actor gets a new role - being locked in a black bag during psychology lectures for an entire term as a professor's experiment.
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026
Instead, stocks have spent the past three months locked in a relatively narrow trading range.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 19, 2026
Anthropic’s employees warn their technology could be dangerous, yet the company remains locked in a race to build it first.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026
Matson is also locked in conflict with a colleague on the community services district board, Jack Unger.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026
The two squadrons were locked in an intense competition to win the trophy signifying supremacy among the other squadrons at Ravenel Air Base.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
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