beholden
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Beholden to the ticket machine incessantly spitting out orders, we moved at superhuman speed.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 31, 2024
Beholden Caulfield: The protagonist grows up and takes a job on Madison Avenue to pay off his student loans.
From Washington Post • Oct. 27, 2022
Beholden to more than one front office, these families have a special perspective on the relative winter wimpiness or flintiness of regional school systems.
From Washington Post • Feb. 19, 2019
Beholden to four children and an unsupportive husband, she is underslept and undersocialised, with no life to speak of beyond her role as mom.
From The Guardian • Oct. 2, 2016
Beholden to paying clients, they were widely seen as surreptitious figures who burglarized people’s secrets.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
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