fetter
Example Sentences
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At its core, it serves to moderate the thrill for new ideas and fetter decision-making with long debates.
From Slate • May 16, 2017
At another point, the actor becomes one of two mortarboard-wearing orators who pull at the straps that fetter two shocked listeners.
From Washington Post • Apr. 19, 2016
And the commission stated it was not seeking to fetter the charity's discretion to fund Cage "for all time regardless of changing circumstances".
From BBC • Oct. 21, 2015
Huang is something else: a person at war with all the constraints that would fetter him to anything less than an identity capacious enough to contain all his contradictions and ambivalence.
From New York Times • Feb. 3, 2015
In the black iron fetter about his wrist, the ruby seemed to pulse.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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