chained

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Outside the capital's national police facility known as Zone 7, family members had chained themselves to prison gates, while some had spent weeks sleeping in tents.

From Barron's • Mar. 8, 2026

By contrast, the German Reich was unfortunate in its ally Austria-Hungary during World War I; one observer likened it to “being chained to a rotting corpse.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 12, 2025

It is unreasonable and unrealistic to ask the tourists to be chained to the nets, or spend every moment away from cricket locked in their rooms.

From BBC • Dec. 3, 2025

“Good Boy,” by Jan Komasa, has an arresting star turn by Anson Boon as a ruffian who gets chained up in a rich family’s cellar until he agrees to behave.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 8, 2025

Black conjured heavy manacles from thin air; soon Pettigrew was upright again, left arm chained to Lupin’s right, right arm to Ron’s left.

From "Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban" by J.K. Rowling