in chains

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Amino acids connect in chains to form proteins, which perform nearly all essential functions in living organisms, from constructing cells to driving chemical reactions.

From Science Daily • Feb. 12, 2026

In Tegucigalpa, the nation’s capital from which Hernández left in chains in 2022, Asfura held a paper-thin lead Monday in Honduras’s presidential race.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 2, 2025

Images of these migrants in chains, disembarking from an American aircraft, had made headlines for weeks.

From BBC • May 29, 2025

Such activism, I believed then and I believe now, began in 1619, the moment enslaved Africans were deposited in chains on American shores.

From Salon • Apr. 18, 2025

Precious stones of astonishing size and brightness stared from their crowns and hung in chains round their necks and peeped out from all the places where anything was fastened.

From "The Magician's Nephew" by C. S. Lewis