beholden
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"Because I feel like if I've met someone and you have some sort of relationship with them, then you feel beholden in a way," he said, adding it creates a "different level of responsibility".
From BBC • Mar. 5, 2026
“So, I’m not beholden to it, but I like him in the three-hole right now.”
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 19, 2026
“Bread of Angels” is her story, and in choosing to write this book, she was only beholden to her own muses.
From Salon • Nov. 11, 2025
She’s excellent in the role, small and vulnerable yet tough and fierce, a pink-clad dynamo who is nevertheless beholden to others.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 6, 2025
Sandi's father looked down at his plate, grateful, but also embarrassed to be in such straits and to be so beholden.
From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez
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