Definitions
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- noun repository in a public building where lost articles can be kept until their owners reclaim them
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Examples
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It's a herky-jerky journey - some of it fascinating, much of it dizzyingly random - as eccentric and chaotic as a lost-and-found bin.
Undone by a house of dreams Marie Arana 2011
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It's a herky-jerky journey - some of it fascinating, much of it dizzyingly random - as eccentric and chaotic as a lost-and-found bin.
Undone by a house of dreams Marie Arana 2011
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Crews also try to pick up photos and valuables they find and send them to a lost-and-found center for survivors to sift through, he said.
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This sense of lost-and-found runs through the story, but in the way steel beams support a house.
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The hotel's lost-and-found section gets 100 to 150 new items a day, mostly sunglasses and phone chargers—which are held in boxes sorted by brand.
When 12,000 Guests Spend the Night Andrea Petersen 2011
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Money winds up in government lost-and-found agencies for many reasons, including:
Jason Alderman: Finding Your Lost Money Jason Alderman 2011
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As the independent nose grows large, sprouts spindly legs and goes walkabout, the distraught Kovaliov rushes to the police, tries to place an ad in the newspaper's lost-and-found column and frantically pursues the errant appendage.
An Ingeniously Staged 'Nose' Judy Fayard 2011
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Back in California, meanwhile, an elderly woman who saw the lost-and-found "Adams" photos featured on the local news came forward to say that she had seen some of them before.
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Most people don't bother asking for their chargers back, leaving them to pile up in lost-and-found stashes.
Good Thing Hotels Don't Charge for Left-Behind Chargers 2010
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Hotel lost-and-found bins are overflowing with mobile chargers from cell phones, Blackberrys, iPhones and assorted other gizmos.
Good Thing Hotels Don't Charge for Left-Behind Chargers 2010
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