binding

I had already picked up a white onion, although an onion is hardly a binding commitment; so many good dinners begin that way.

From Salon ● Aug. 20, 2026

“U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services will ensure that immigration filings are decided based on the laws, regulations, and binding legal precedent that govern each case.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026

"An hour or two of exposure is enough to trigger glycosylation, or the binding of smoke to the sugars in the grapes," said oenology consultant Clement Prelat, who is advising winemakers in the area.

From Barron's ● Aug. 6, 2026

The federal government imposed binding arbitration on the airline and its flight attendants, and the flight attendants won some ground pay.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 2, 2026

He knots it three times, binding the book closed with the loose page against the cover, the cards securely pressed inside.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern

"You can think of it as a basket that allows us to capture metals and position them in ways to encourage specific types of bindings."

From Science Daily ● Jul. 29, 2026

Anthropic also purchased millions of print copies in bulk, stripped the books’ bindings and made scanned digital copies that were used to train Claude.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026

On view are examples of bulbous book bindings, acid-etched vases, satin capes, parchment-covered cabinets, angular decanters, diamond-decorated cloche hats, geometric malachite brooches, stark bas-reliefs, Brancusi-faced collar ads, and boxy, black-lacquer screens.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 23, 2025

Victorian-era publishers used arsenic to colour book bindings, in pigments such as Paris Green, Emerald Green and Scheele's Green, named after a German-born chemist.

From BBC ● Apr. 25, 2024

He made to stand, to move farther into the shadows, but when he noticed the bindings and the king sitting across from him, he was enraged.

From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny