bound
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The passenger -- the wife of the first person to die in the outbreak -- had briefly been on a plane bound from Johannesburg to the Netherlands on April 25, but was removed before take-off.
From Barron's • May 10, 2026
The Airbus A321, bound for Los Angeles, was carrying 224 passengers and seven crew members, according to Frontier.
From Barron's • May 9, 2026
Sable Offshore was bound by a court order not to restart its oil pipelines.
From Los Angeles Times • May 7, 2026
Honor 25 was carrying 18,500 barrels of oil bound for Mogadishu.
From BBC • May 2, 2026
From the day she read that story, Daisy was bound and determined that when she grew up she was going to be a Red Cross nurse.
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
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Vocabulary lists containing bound
The SAT: Multiple-Meaning Words, List 1
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"Romeo and Juliet" by William Shakespeare, Act I
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Two-Faced Words: Contronyms
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