tethered

Initially, these were carried out with the aircraft tethered to the ground.

“Forgetting helps us to focus on the here and now and on the decisions and the actions we need to take, rather than be tethered to the past.”

We may have escaped physically, but our souls and hearts remained tethered to our loved ones in Gaza.

“There’s a primal yearning to be part of nature and tethered to eternal things. It’s also just hot. Like, that’s a sexy dude with his f— farm life,” he says.

Off in the distance, a fence is glimpsed, suggesting a cultivated landscape rather than a wild one, while a lone telephone pole identifies the rural location as tethered to community via modern communication.