tethered
Example Sentences
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The drive to secure key commodities was tethered to consistent support for low-carbon technology that is sweeping global markets.
Two goats and a sheep lay tethered near the prow, next to a couple of bicycles lying on their sides.
From Literature
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He readied a pledge to invest vast amounts in the U.S. and emphasized the U.A.E. had tethered itself to the U.S. on AI.
Doing something your brain tells you is structurally impossible was like inhabiting an optical illusion and we all laughed as we scaled the multi-tiered falls with the occasional assistance of a tethered rope.
If American prices are tethered to what the U.K. or Switzerland pays, drugmakers would need to raise prices abroad and lower them in the U.S. to balance things out.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.