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Sticky global inflation and higher interest rates are also a headwind, but Destry noted that Indonesia isn’t in the same fiscal bind as other countries with bigger debt loads and deficits.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

His government banned its use in federal executions but that did not bind individual states such as Tennessee, which can choose their own methods.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

The company also is focused on designing antibodies to make them bind more tightly to their targets.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

Those carriers already challenged by the current economic environment, meanwhile, are in a bigger bind.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 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

One end of the Protac drug binds to the disease-causing protein.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 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

The flimsy binds were a silly thing to take comfort in—they’d do nothing if Diko's mood soured—but he was subdued, at least for now.

From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray

Forty-three flights bound for Istanbul Airport had to be diverted Wednesday, as did three flights heading for Sabiha Gokcen on the Asian side, which temporarily suspended take-offs due to strong winds, the transport ministry said.

From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026

“They’re such sweet and generous people, and such good musicians and writers. I feel like that side of them was bound to take center stage eventually,” Jennings said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

Nearly 54 years ago, Apollo 17 blasted off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, bound for the moon.

From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026

"I'm bound to be, I am 103-and-a-half, and I was the youngest by two years," he said.

From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026

They looped Marlie's rope around their waists and bound themselves together in a line: Jonn, Rowan, Allun, and Marlie.

From "Rowan of Rin" by Emily Rodda

By binding to molecules the fungus uses during infection, these regions help plants recognize the presence of an invading pathogen and activate their defenses.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 15, 2026

In studying it further, researchers discovered it was a protein degrader—the drug was able to destroy a problem protein by binding it with the right enzyme to attack a disease.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

At the end of last month, Trump hosted the leaders of US tech giants OpenAI, Anthropic, Nvidia, SpaceX, Meta, and Google at the White House where the executives signed a "morally binding" document.

From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026

Tech bosses at a White House meeting this week signed a commitment to self-police AI, an accord Trump described as "morally binding."

From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026

And the person binding can see and speak through the spirit and its form.

From "Shadowshaper" by Daniel José Older