bind
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The surface of the protein is exceptionally smooth, lacking the molecular pockets that standard drugs require to bind to and turn the switch off.
From Science Daily • Jun. 4, 2026
But there is no denying that he is in a bind.
From BBC • May 28, 2026
Second, some tumors may increase proteins that bind to B12 in the blood.
From Science Daily • May 27, 2026
The idea runs back at least to the influential 18th-century English jurist William Blackstone, who instructed that “Acts of parliament derogatory from the power of subsequent parliaments bind not.”
From Slate • May 26, 2026
I was in something of a bind, for I really could not say—could not allow myself to be stampeded into saying—that I was a Christian.
From "The Fire Next Time" by James Baldwin
Vocabulary lists containing bind
The SAT: Multiple-Meaning Words, List 3
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The New SAT: Multiple-Meaning Words
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The ACT Reading Test: Multiple-Meaning Words, List 4
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