Synonyms for locking
lock·ing

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1. locking, lockupnoun

   the act of locking something up to protect it

   Synonyms:
   lockup

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1. • Protection

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1. List of paraphrases for "locking":

   lock, lock-up, lockout, blockade, blocking, latching, embargo, phase-lock, foreclosure, lockdown, latch, lock-out, block, blockage, gating

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1. locking

   Synonyms:
   See Phase locking
   

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1. Raffaello Pantucci:

   The Trump administration is locking in place a series of conflicts that change the starting point for Biden walking into office on the world stage.

2. Ontario Environment Minister Glen Murray:

   We are actually locking ourselves in to a very clear set of objectives and a very clear way of demonstrating how we achieve those objectives, that's an historic first.

3. Michelle Koyama:

   The country can't afford to be locking in to a hugely polluting, expensive and carbon-intensive mega project at a time when — more than ever — we need to act against the climate crisis, protect the resilience of vulnerable, water scarce areas and preserve our limited state funds and resources for projects with positive outcomes and benefits for all.

4. Vera Ezimora:

   I do not think that being isolated is necessarily a sign that a person could be dangerous in the future, having guns should also not mean that one day, they will be used in a mass murder, but if you have a person with a development disorder or mental illness living at home with you, I would think that locking away deadly weapons like guns should be a priority.

5. Eric Adams:

   At the precinct level, someone comes in for a petty theft, we're at the policing level, you identify that they have a mental health issue, instead of locking them up -- let's defer prosecution, let's have a local community-based organization that deals with mental health illnesses handle it right at the precinct -- that's the coordination that we need, there's no reason to put someone( with) mental health illness in Rikers Island, Rikers Island's Rikers Island.