bound to
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"I mean, with everything that's been going on, with the activity around the air base, something like that is bound to happen," said 21-year-old Victor Compton.
From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026
By making intentional decisions aligned with your goals and values, leading an active social life and contributing to a cause that elevates your spirit, you’re bound to feel more happy and fulfilled.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 18, 2026
Gloomy outlook: Meanwhile, American oil executives warned for months that the prolonged closure of the Strait of Hormuz was bound to cause a fuel crisis.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
McVay speaks often about how adversity during a season is bound to come.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026
But Ptolemy and his followers had assumed that measurements could be regarded as approximations: in practice, there were bound to be minor discrepancies between theoretical predictions and actual measurements.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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