tether
Example Sentences
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Crunch, as a sensation, sometimes works like a gentle tether back to appetite.
From Salon
It may now be tethering on the edge of a bigger drop.
From MarketWatch
Doing something your brain tells you is structurally impossible was like inhabiting an optical illusion and we all laughed as we scaled the multi-tiered falls with the occasional assistance of a tethered rope.
If American prices are tethered to what the U.K. or Switzerland pays, drugmakers would need to raise prices abroad and lower them in the U.S. to balance things out.
The board is "tethered to a galaxy far, far away and not to the realities of conflict resolution back here on Planet Earth," he said.
From Barron's
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
