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[teth-er] / ˈtɛð ər /




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While Geese has a tendency to channel and then rearrange rock history, Mr. Winter’s solo work has no such tether.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

By placing a tether around captive moths and projecting stars on the wall, researchers last year showed how Bogongs used the Milky Way.

From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026

The findings, published in Current Biology, suggest that the spiral forms as the embryo's body rapidly lengthens while its gut acts as a tether.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 1, 2026

There’s just this beautiful, invisible tether that has always existed and will always exist between the two of them.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2026

A tether to his house and his bidding.

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam

But the way it tethers its bruised healers to the human condition’s laws of gravity is potent medicine for coping.

From Salon ● Feb. 7, 2026

The building, which has asymmetrical overhead lighting resembling stars, represents the sky, Govan noted, and Castillo Deball’s artwork tethers the building to the land.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 10, 2025

His approach tethers DNA probes dubbed "Inverse Molecular Sentinels" to the points of star-shaped gold nanoparticles.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 13, 2024

To support them, he anchors parallel rows of eight- or 10-foot canes into the ground, about eight inches apart within each row, and then tethers the rows together with a bamboo crossbar near the top.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 17, 2024

One of the tethers binding the soul to the body snapped, like the stem of a leaf splitting from a tree.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman

It means you can stream VR games wirelessly from your PC in high quality without being tethered by a cable, and it works well.

From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026

Whatever their subject, the photographer remained tethered to his city.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026

Already established by the 1940s, Avery’s work grows simpler, more expansive, flatter and with larger color blocks, but his images remain tethered to the real world.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 1, 2026

The two companies remain tethered to one another as a federal court considers claims that their $81 billion deal violates antitrust law.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026

Only Boaz—a black Arabian and presumably Silver Star’s counterpart—remains tethered, and he’s clearly unhappy about it.

From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen

As a result, more companies are changing their business models, raising gobs of cash and tethering their fortunes to the fate of AI behemoths.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 6, 2026

It may now be tethering on the edge of a bigger drop.

From MarketWatch ● Jan. 29, 2026

Panahi has a knack for tethering simple narratives to larger political and social issues.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2025

Without VAP to anchor the mitochondria by tethering it to the actin cytoskeleton, the mitochondria drifted away from synapses over time.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 4, 2024

This was the moment of truth, the tethering of a truth and a he.

From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray


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