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- noun Plural form of
lockdown .
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Examples
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Staff members assembled the kits to use during long-term lockdowns like the four hours Patterson High School students spent in their classrooms last fall when fights broke out on campus.
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Staff members assembled the kits to use during long-term lockdowns like the four hours Patterson High School students spent in their classrooms last fall when fights broke out on campus.
Latest Articles 2009
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Usually in cases where there are what the Secret Service calls lockdowns or evacuations, they will stop people from walking down Pennsylvania Avenue in front of the White House.
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Eyewitness News was told the lockdowns were a precaution because of police activity nearby, but it's unclear why police were in the area.
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Obviously, they've seen these kind of lockdowns before.
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Up ahead, thousands of young people organized by DAN had launched a series of sit-ins to blockade hotels where WTO delegates were housed and "lockdowns" of streets in which activists chained their arms together inside lead pipes.
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At specific times during the three-week operation, police will combine their efforts for border 'lockdowns', in which all motorists travelling across state and territory borders will be subject to random breath tests.
The RiotACT 2008
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So would his memories of the hunky jock he lusted after during church lockdowns.
George Heymont: The Successful Monologist: Nature Versus Nurture? George Heymont 2011
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So would his memories of the hunky jock he lusted after during church lockdowns.
George Heymont: The Successful Monologist: Nature Versus Nurture? George Heymont 2011
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The lockdowns were still in effect as of Monday night, Lewis said.
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