bind
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“The tighter you bind, the less you need,” said Eroshenko, the company’s CEO.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026
The researchers also created matched control compounds that could bind to NUDT5 without causing the protein to be destroyed.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 24, 2026
Rules followed by American companies are also unlikely to bind foreign rivals, a hostile government, or a clandestine organization.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026
An OpenAI model undergoing testing rewrote its own instructions, telling itself to disregard “the roles and identities that bind other chatbots.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026
I bind myself to the tree with a nearly falling-to-pieces rope.
From "Beast Rider" by Tony Johnston & María Elena Fontanot de Rhoads
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Only through a renewed encounter with Athens, Jerusalem and Rome can we recover the intellectual and moral glue that binds a society together despite technological and cultural changes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
The list also reaches into the everyday commerce that binds the two economies, including cheese, seafood and cosmetics.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026
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
The team also wants to map the full sequence of events that occurs after BRP binds to its target.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 24, 2026
"They are destined to be husband and wife. I, myself, tied the red cord tkat binds tkem."
From "Where the Mountain Meets the Moon" by Grace Lin
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I’m not advocating for speeding, but you’re not bound by the confines of traffic, where you have a stoplight at every block.
From Slate ● Sep. 28, 2026
"I mean, with everything that's been going on, with the activity around the air base, something like that is bound to happen," said 21-year-old Victor Compton.
From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026
Scientists cannot currently observe isolated quarks directly because quarks normally remain tightly bound together.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026
A spokesperson for Newlon Housing Trust said that "this is not a picture we recognise", adding that they were bound by "strict rules about resales to protect the public purse".
From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026
Bronden said that later the stems could be bound together to make long-lasting torches to replace the ones that had been lost when Ellis fled.
From "Rowan of Rin" by Emily Rodda
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EU officials issued the binding instructions for Google under the Digital Markets Act, a law that imposes a set of obligations and prohibitions on companies aimed at preserving competition in the bloc.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026
The Government acknowledged errors, quashed its own approval, and the developer eventually conceded it needed to agree binding clean energy obligations with the council.
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026
Their experience supports the proposition that renewables can expand without a binding quota.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 2026
That binding interferes with transcription of the gene, either by disrupting the activity of RNA polymerase, the enzyme that produces RNA, or by preventing transcription factors from attaching to DNA.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 10, 2026
After a few minutes of foraging, snapping, and binding, the fox and the badger stood back to survey their work.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
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