tethered
Example Sentences
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An arbitrator ends the “reserve clause” that had tethered players to one employer for life, triggering the largest salary gains of any group of employees, anywhere—and changing labor practices in all U.S. sports.
And in a way he was right because it was always something that tethered me.
From New York Times
His body was tethered with barbed wire to a cotton gin fan and submerged in the Tallahatchie River.
From Washington Post
But song and story are only tenuously tethered.
From Los Angeles Times
These groups act like a molecular bucket brigade to grab positively charged potassium ions and quickly pass them to the next tethered sulfonate in line, helping the ions zip through the membrane virtually unimpeded.
From Science Magazine
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