tethered
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Dense layers of carefully manipulated sound—elements that seem alienating in some electronic music—are tethered to Ms. Muldrow’s mostly improvised words to suggest the complexities of human emotion.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 4, 2026
A $3,500 price tag and cumbersome battery pack tethered to the headset certainly weren’t selling points.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 4, 2026
Standing beside a row of tethered punts on the River Stour, boatman James Matharu says while he has heard about other businesses getting cancellations, things are "still pretty busy here".
From BBC • Mar. 21, 2026
It’s tethered to ChatGPT creator OpenAI, it’s spending billions on data centers it hopes to develop its cloud infrastructure business, and it’s getting hammered in the market by concerns over its debt, growth, and strategy.
From Barron's • Mar. 11, 2026
"Get up against the fore wall of the airlock. It's going to be about one g for four seconds. Make sure you're both tethered in."
From "The Martian" by Andy Weir
Vocabulary lists containing tethered
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
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Life Is So Good
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Far from the Tree
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