tether
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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
They have sleeping bags that tether to the wall to keep them from floating around the capsule.
From Barron's ● Apr. 4, 2026
She said she had been at the end of her tether, feeling dizzy and her headlight had gone out.
From BBC ● Feb. 19, 2026
My wife and I were in Paris during the tragedy and a decade later, the emotional tether I feel to the city remains taut.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 14, 2026
Reluctantly, Shackleton agreed, although he refused to release the tether that kept the Wills with the Caird.
From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong
I’ve seen people use fanny packs with tethers inside to further secure phones and also phone lanyards.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 1, 2026
Since his family is gone, nothing tethers him to his human life.
From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2025
This new ordinance tethers future minimum wage increases to the rate of inflation.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 2, 2024
His approach tethers DNA probes dubbed "Inverse Molecular Sentinels" to the points of star-shaped gold nanoparticles.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 13, 2024
Slowly, little by little, souls were drifting away from the island, their own tethers snapped.
From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt
Due to his ageing fabric, he now usually appears tethered rather than taking to the skies.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
The original version of Atlas, reliant on heavy hydraulics and tethered to a cable, was unveiled by Boston Dynamics more than a decade ago as part of a U.S. military robotics competition for search-and-rescue operations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026
"People are moving away from the traditional mindset that certain jobs must be tethered to a specific gender," Chen Ning, the 27-year-old founder, told AFP.
From Barron's ● Jul. 8, 2026
Soccer logo and tethered to a rise just outside the stadium.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 26, 2026
“I will outlive you by a century. Even fairies tethered to the human realm can survive the ages.”
From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer
But by tethering interpretation to statutory text and congressional intent while applying it to the real-world cases of an ever-evolving society, the new regime curbs the unintended consequences of law’s diverging from reality.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 24, 2026
Colonel Parker, Elvis’s manager, kept his cash cow on a leash, tethering him first to middling B-pictures, then to casinos.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 19, 2026
It may now be tethering on the edge of a bigger drop.
From MarketWatch ● Jan. 29, 2026
You could, for instance, be charged for tethering your goat on a public street, fixing a leaky tap without a licence or not naming the owner of a building when asked.
From BBC ● Apr. 22, 2025
But she had tiny feet, tethering in high-heeled shoes.
From "A Long Way from Chicago" by Richard Peck
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The Cay
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"The Odyssey" by Homer, Books 19–24
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"Hitching a Ride"
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