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“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

However, upon further inspection, it’s not clear that any of this is legally binding, and Blanche himself admitted as much during his hearing last month.

From Slate ● Aug. 6, 2026

She said there were mitigation efforts the company planned to put in place, and the approval imposes legally binding conditions on Canada Nickel that include protections for indigenous people living in and using the area.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026

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 suffragists complained that the referendum wasn’t binding, and the antis complained that they were expected to vote in order to show that they didn’t want the vote.

From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling

"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

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

They tend to be these lock-and-key receptors, and if we create a different key, we might be able to alter the bindings.

From Scientific American ● Aug. 1, 2023

Maybe not since “The Grapes of Wrath” has a work of imaginative literature by a Californian done so much for the world beyond its bindings.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 11, 2023

Again he tugged at the bindings round his wrists.

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver