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He made up for this outbreak of separatism by lobbying, before and after the war, to dig the Erie Canal, which would bind the interior and the coast of the country together.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

The existing contracts in F1 bind the FIA, teams and commercial rights holder together only until 2030.

From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2026

Importantly, obakulactone did more than bind to the protein.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 22, 2026

The big bet colleges made on computer science by hiring faculty and building facilities is now putting them in a bind as they look to pivot amid declining student demand.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026

I apologize for the double negative, but it’s a real double negative of a situation, a bind from which negating the negation is truly the only escape.

From "Turtles All the Way Down" by John Green

But Haitians understand the horror of zombies to be one of dispossession, a curse enacted by enslavers that binds victims to mindless servitude, denying them liberation in the afterlife.

From Salon ● Oct. 31, 2026

But “when it’s done well, it really binds, because they are thinking, alive things; they are. That’s our job to animate.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026

Watch: The Prince of Wales says Sir Kevin "binds and glues communities together"

From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2026

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

“The Noise binds us all, young Todd,” he says, his voice slithering and shiny like a snake.

From "The Knife of Never Letting Go" by Patrick Ness

In this bound form, the gas appears to be unavailable for the reaction needed to manufacture the drug.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 4, 2026

And unlike traditional data centers bound by long-term client commitments, miners had the flexibility to reallocate that power directly to AI.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026

We won’t know until Tuesday night, and the outcome is bound to be close.

From Slate ● Nov. 3, 2026

She tells the BBC she is desperate to go back to Sri Lanka and has even offered to go "handcuffed, bound and gagged".

From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2026

And since the power was bound to go out, it made sense to finish off anything in the freezer that was going to melt or spoil.

From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz

The marriages are not legally binding, but viewers see the couples go on honeymoon, before moving in together and navigating their relationships - all while being filmed, almost every day.

From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2026

Importantly, stronger receptor binding does not automatically establish that muscle regeneration itself has improved.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 4, 2026

The current Plaid Cymru government's ambition is for Wales, as a whole, to reach net zero by 2040 - which is ten years sooner than the current legally binding target for Wales and UK.

From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026

Instead of binding to claudin-4 receptors on colon cells, BFT attached to the decoy proteins.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 31, 2026

Including reading magazines that might have iron staples rather than glue binding their pages, not caring if her fingers get singed.

From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black