tethered

Example Sentences

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Dense layers of carefully manipulated sound—elements that seem alienating in some electronic music—are tethered to Ms. Muldrow’s mostly improvised words to suggest the complexities of human emotion.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 4, 2026

Although the actor felt tethered to the character while on set, she could easily dissociate at the end of the day.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 26, 2026

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 The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 25, 2026

The board is "tethered to a galaxy far, far away and not to the realities of conflict resolution back here on Planet Earth," he said.

From Barron's • Jan. 22, 2026

By the time I’d tethered Plug, Perilee had both of Chase’s buckets full.

From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson