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Recent Examples of jewel box
With the goal of evoking the feeling of stepping into a jewel box, the rooms are decorated with fine materials like walnut, travertine marble, velvet, ceramic and hand-worked glass.
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Tianwei Zhang, WWD, 6 Dec. 2024
The compact kitchen in Molly Williams’ jewel box 1890 Charlotte, North Carolina, home feels more comfortably airy thanks to the cabinet color, which warmly balances Magnolia’s French Ticking wallpaper that covers the upper reaches of the walls.
—Betsy Cribb Watson, Southern Living, 6 Dec. 2024
The serene primary bath is a pale pink jewel box of luminous Rosa Portogallo and Rosa Aurora marble, with a custom designed and milled vanity and medicine cabinets.
—Elizabeth Stamp, Architectural Digest, 4 Dec. 2024
Down the street is the artist Jack Pierson’s Elliott Templeton Fine Arts, a jewel box of a space devoted to delicate ideas strongly executed.
—The New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2024
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Tianwei Zhang, WWD, 6 Dec. 2024
The compact kitchen in Molly Williams’ jewel box 1890 Charlotte, North Carolina, home feels more comfortably airy thanks to the cabinet color, which warmly balances Magnolia’s French Ticking wallpaper that covers the upper reaches of the walls.
—Betsy Cribb Watson, Southern Living, 6 Dec. 2024
The serene primary bath is a pale pink jewel box of luminous Rosa Portogallo and Rosa Aurora marble, with a custom designed and milled vanity and medicine cabinets.
—Elizabeth Stamp, Architectural Digest, 4 Dec. 2024
Down the street is the artist Jack Pierson’s Elliott Templeton Fine Arts, a jewel box of a space devoted to delicate ideas strongly executed.
—The New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for jewel box
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One snuffbox had been a present for George V on his 55th birthday in 1920 while the other featured 3,000 diamonds and was bought by Queen Mary in 1932 for £1,000, the equivalent in modern money of around $75,000 according to the Bank of England's inflation calculator.—
Josh Hammer,
Newsweek,
2 Dec. 2024
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The snuffbox is the most widespread of the Epioblasma genus of mussels.—
Jennifer Dixon,
Detroit Free Press,
15 Aug. 2024
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On the floor is a hatbox from a hat shop in London.—
Sloane Crosley,
The New Yorker,
5 Aug. 2024
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The ghost was intended to be an opening day character whose head disappeared before guests’ eyes then reappeared in a hatbox in his hand.—
Eve Chen,
USA TODAY,
28 July 2023
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As for the transplanted Tucker, playing home games at Wrigley Field, a notorious bandbox, should help raise his value.—
Dan Schlossberg,
Forbes,
13 Dec. 2024
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The Havocs are closer to a full 50 percent in a bandbox with a lower ceiling that contains, even amplifies, noise.—
Mark Zeigler,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
7 Dec. 2023
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Lily Franck; 2024; USA; 4 min A mother’s hope chest becomes a catalyst for her daughter’s reconsideration of traditional gender roles in this charming stop-motion animation.—
Addie Morfoot,
Variety,
5 Feb. 2025
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Lily Franck; 2024; USA; 4 min A mother’s hope chest becomes a catalyst for her daughter’s reconsideration of traditional gender roles in this charming stop-motion animation.—
Addie Morfoot,
Variety,
5 Feb. 2025
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The Army hired experts for advice that ranged from finding the right horses for caisson duty to designing the curriculum for soldiers who care and ride them.—
John Bacon,
USA TODAY,
7 Jan. 2025
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Ronald Reagan, a noted enthusiast did, and that’s the last time the caisson unit took part.—
Tom Vanden Brook,
USA TODAY,
6 Jan. 2025
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Nigeria, on track to become more populous than China by the end of the century, could turn central Africa into a tinderbox.—
Michael Albertus,
Foreign Affairs,
4 Mar. 2025
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After almost a year of a brutal war with Hamas in Gaza, Israel is at the center of a tinderbox of multiple, interrelated Middle East conflicts.—
Kim Hjelmgaard,
USA TODAY,
12 Sep. 2024
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In response, Trump allies have dug through the vault to hit them with their own words.—
Haisten Willis,
The Washington Examiner,
13 Apr. 2025
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In times of rising tension, governments need more gold in their vaults.—
Clem Chambers,
Forbes.com,
11 Apr. 2025
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Rarely did Ed McCaffrey open up his safe-deposit box to show off his Super Bowl rings, having also won with the 1997 and ’98 Denver Broncos.—
Cam Inman,
The Mercury News,
7 Feb. 2024
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An appeals court finds the FBI did violate rights of some Beverly Hills safe-deposit box holders.—
Anthony De Leon,
Los Angeles Times,
25 Jan. 2024
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“Jewel box.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/jewel%20box. Accessed 22 Apr. 2025.
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