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If any sufficiently senior official could sign away tax liability with a memo, the revenue laws would bind only taxpayers without friends in the government.

From Slate ● Aug. 10, 2026

United States in 1929 that where Congress prescribes the exclusive method for compromising tax liability, informal settlements by officials, however senior, do not bind the United States.

From Slate ● Aug. 10, 2026

It destroys the ties that bind and encourages anger and petulance.

From Salon ● Jul. 31, 2026

Hernández Sánchez proposed that if lanthanides could bind oxygen in the right way, they might produce highly reactive lanthanide oxo compounds.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 29, 2026

Besides, he could not bind all that he had in his nature—the rover, the aspirant, the poet, the priest—in the limits of a single passion.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

He assured Sen. John Cornyn that “other agencies or departments” somehow binds only the IRS and Treasury, a reading Cornyn told him the text will not bear.

From Slate ● Aug. 10, 2026

A series of tests, including cellular thermal shift assays, microscale thermophoresis, and surface plasmon resonance experiments, showed that OL binds directly to ACOT1.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 23, 2026

The Ocean of Peace alliance elevates Fiji to one of Australia's few treaty allies and binds each nation to come to the other's "mutual defence".

From Barron's ● Jul. 6, 2026

And, unlike the AD100-approved interior designers and architects that so many Hollywood stars rely on to bring their dream dwellings to life, the tie that binds these A-listers is actually accessible to the average homeowner.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 6, 2026

There's just this one thing that binds us.

From "How It Went Down" by Kekla Magoon

Treasury yields were lower in recent trade on Wednesday, although they remained near the upper bound of their recent range.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 12, 2026

They are also bound by a Uefa settlement agreement for three more seasons, but European football's governing body has acknowledged they have made efforts to improve their finances.

From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026

The same should be true for super PACs and other outside groups, which remain bound by coordination restrictions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026

Each new segment of the city he rides is generally a rectangle bound by major streets.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026

“It comes down to motivation, doesn’t it? Since we’re being candid, we might as well acknowledge that we saw one another on the train bound for London. We both have missions and we’re motivated.”

From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin

Environment Minister Julie Dabrusin approved the project, imposing legally binding conditions to protect indigenous people.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026

Sixty-one years later, on April 29, 2026, Anthony Liuzzo and Americans across the country witnessed six individuals, in one fell swoop, issue a binding opinion in Louisiana v.

From Slate ● Jul. 27, 2026

"It's done. We signed a legally binding contract about three months ago," Matchroom's Hearn said.

From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026

By binding to that location, the tool prevented cancer cells from reaching and shortening the end, or tail, of the molecule.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 26, 2026

Tears were tumbling down his cheeks and he couldn’t stop them, couldn’t even wipe them away because the nightmare’s tendrils were binding him now, had nearly taken him over completely.

From "A Monster Calls" by Patrick Ness