chained

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Outside the capital's national police facility known as Zone 7, family members had chained themselves to prison gates, while some had spent weeks sleeping in tents.

From Barron's • Mar. 8, 2026

By contrast, the German Reich was unfortunate in its ally Austria-Hungary during World War I; one observer likened it to “being chained to a rotting corpse.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 12, 2025

The animals are chained to an automated vehicle that lays the yellow bricks, made by the Munchkins.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 24, 2025

For his wife Barbara, the toughest time of her captivity was "seeing my 80-year old husband struggling to get into the back of a police truck with his hands and ankles chained."

From BBC • Sep. 22, 2025

I figured that it was about time for me to say something or I would surely have to drink the well dry or be chained to a fence post.

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls