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[bahynd] / baɪnd /






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If any sufficiently senior official could sign away tax liability with a memo, the revenue laws would bind only taxpayers without friends in the government.

From Slate Aug. 10, 2026

United States in 1929 that where Congress prescribes the exclusive method for compromising tax liability, informal settlements by officials, however senior, do not bind the United States.

From Slate Aug. 10, 2026

It destroys the ties that bind and encourages anger and petulance.

From Salon Jul. 31, 2026

When HGF was mixed with LASSS, its ability to bind to c met rose to more than twice that of untreated HGF.

From Science Daily Jul. 24, 2026

“I always said he was a thief. And my mother! To forsake my father, who was like Hyperion, the sun god, and bind herself to this demon! Where is her judgment, where is her reason?”

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein

Nothing here binds a future administration, and courts almost never stop the government from disavowing promises its officials had no authority to make.

From Slate Aug. 10, 2026

"Caffeine binds the receptor, but it doesn't do much in our models," Safe said.

From Science Daily Jul. 19, 2026

"You have to shift your perspective from a map of dispersed and isolated islands to one where the ocean itself is the living fabric that binds us all together," she said.

From Barron's Jul. 10, 2026

And, unlike the AD100-approved interior designers and architects that so many Hollywood stars rely on to bring their dream dwellings to life, the tie that binds these A-listers is actually accessible to the average homeowner.

From MarketWatch Jul. 6, 2026

Then the friends drink together, and that saroi binds them forever.

From "Facing the Lion" by Joseph Lemasolai Lekuton and Herman Viola

"With dairy products, it's got two proteins -- casein and whey -- that are bound together with fat and with nutrients mixed in," says Anderson.

From Science Daily Aug. 9, 2026

They are also bound by a Uefa settlement agreement for three more seasons, but European football's governing body has acknowledged they have made efforts to improve their finances.

From BBC Aug. 7, 2026

Fans mobbed an airport to jeer him as he boarded a private jet bound for LSU.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 5, 2026

Each new segment of the city he rides is generally a rectangle bound by major streets.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 4, 2026

In August 1852, Phineas leaves New England forever, bound for Chile and a new life as a stagecoach driver.

From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman

The two airline groups had both submitted non-binding offers in April and had three months to submit binding offers.

From Barron's Jul. 29, 2026

The combined company has committed to at least 30 theatrical releases a year with a minimum 45-day exclusive theatrical window and has proposed making that commitment legally binding.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 28, 2026

Sixty-one years later, on April 29, 2026, Anthony Liuzzo and Americans across the country witnessed six individuals, in one fell swoop, issue a binding opinion in Louisiana v.

From Slate Jul. 27, 2026

By binding to that location, the tool prevented cancer cells from reaching and shortening the end, or tail, of the molecule.

From Science Daily Jul. 26, 2026

The leather binding of Eddie’s journal lay open and empty on the ground.

From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia




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