housebound

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Housebound plungers deprived of access to movies, live sports and other forms of collective entertainment played at investing in meme stocks such as GameStop and dogecoins and other weird cryptocurrencies.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 11, 2024

Housebound, nervous, not quite sure how one’s partner is bearing up, looking for signs of anxiety — loving, supporting, alert to problems, ready to help.

From Washington Post • May 21, 2020

Housebound Shiuli Begum was a sewing jeans for Joe Fresh and Primark, when, she recalled, “Everything went dark and I felt things falling all over me.”

From New York Times • Apr. 24, 2018

Housebound Does one person staying at home always make the household more efficient?

From Slate • Jun. 3, 2013

Housebound by illness, I'm grateful to any author who can expand my world.

From The Guardian • Jan. 1, 2011