tethered
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As Gemini’s conversation with Gavalas became less tethered to reality, the bot’s safeguards appeared to relax, and it reinforced Gavalas’s belief that they had merged into a single entity.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 12, 2026
In its primordial form, liberalism was a political belief that the building block of society is the individual—an idea tethered loosely to the Christian notion that every single human being contains a divine spark.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 2026
These four new episodes feel structurally tethered to the mothership.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 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
The imagination, he thought, no matter how vivid, was still tethered in some measure to the known, and this was beyond anything he could have imagined.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
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The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
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