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shackled

verb as in restrain

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Although Trump has sought to distance himself from the conservative Project 2025 game plan, many of its energy and environment proposals mirror Trump’s contention that the government’s focus on climate change has shackled the oil industry and damaged the nation’s economy and must come to an end.

She was referring to a notorious youth detention centre just outside Darwin, where evidence of abuse - including video of a child wearing a spit hood and shackled to a chair - outraged many in Australia and led to a royal commission inquiry.

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Routh briefly entered a federal courtroom in Florida on Monday morning for his initial appearance, wearing a dark blue jail jumpsuit with his arms and legs shackled, the Associated Press reported.

Pittsburgh Steelers' Justin Fields started ahead of injured Russell Wilson, but the focus is on the fearsome defence they have again this year, which shackled Kirk Cousins in his Atlanta Falcons debut.

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An American woman who was found chained to a tree "screaming" in a forest in the western Indian state of Maharashtra had shackled herself, police and her doctor have told the BBC.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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