tether
Example Sentences
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An arbitrator ends the “reserve clause” that had tethered players to one employer for life, triggering the largest salary gains of any group of employees, anywhere—and changing labor practices in all U.S. sports.
At 84, Craven is one of the threads tethered to the town’s vivid past.
From Seattle Times
But the new radiocarbon date for the Blacks Fork horse shows it was raised, tethered, and buried sometime between 1600 and 1650, many hundreds of kilometers north of Paa’ko and Spanish outposts in New Mexico.
From Science Magazine
Grimaud’s playing, softly golden and delicately smooth, tethers the melodies, allowing them to billow freely without floating away.
From New York Times
By then, the trumpeter’s ear had drifted from traditional jazz to edgier blends of funk and psychedelic rock; he wanted to craft an amorphous sound only loosely tethered to any genre.
From New York Times
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