bound
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Beside Grant, who is bound for the Portland Cascade, there will be 12 other former Bruins sprinkled among the league’s six rosters.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 8, 2026
PHOENIX—A 26,000-pound box truck loaded with Doritos and Frito-Lay chips rolls out of a distribution center, bound for a Walmart store about 4 miles away.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 8, 2026
Xi praised the two as "good neighbours, good friends and good comrades bound by a shared destiny", and called for closer strategic coordination.
From BBC • Jun. 7, 2026
When galaxies collide and eventually combine, their central black holes can become gravitationally bound, forming what scientists call a supermassive black hole binary.
From Science Daily • Jun. 5, 2026
“I was bound to work with the family until I was eighteen. But once Auntie Matchmaker found your ba for me, I told the tai-tai about the trouble with her husband. She let me go.”
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
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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