beholden
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SF Compute’s business has grown as companies are increasingly beholden to the yearslong timelines of data-center build-outs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026
She didn’t want the future to feel beholden to the past; she just wanted it to be better.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026
Falling in love with music is a radically different proposition to making it your career; and, like many middle-aged rock bands, The Killers feel beholden to their earliest hits.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
There’s a culture at the time of lavish gift-giving to diplomats and foreign officials, and he’s just terrified that officers of the United States will be beholden and influenced by foreigners.
From Slate ● Aug. 17, 2026
But she had sixty varieties of roses, and most everybody in Cold Sassy was beholden to her for nursing a relative back to health or laying out the body for burial.
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
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