Locks and Stays

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Stays and locks are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Stays" instead a verb "Locks".

Stays noun - A woman's close-fitting foundation garment.

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Locks and stays are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Locks" instead a verb "Stays".

When the young policeman and the health inspector are bitten, the former tells everyone to get out while he stays behind to subdue the infected Jennifer before he turns, and the latter locks himself away.

Source: Film / [REC]
He's had to learn how to fight, pick locks, and steal for every time he's thrown somewhere, as he is basically helpless, unarmed, and naked wherever he arrives (anything that isn't part of him stays behind—he had to have a tooth pulled just because he kept losing the filling).

Source: Literature / The Time Traveler's Wife

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