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His government banned its use in federal executions but that did not bind individual states such as Tennessee, which can choose their own methods.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

He also saw that giving Americans across the states a shared stake in federal bonds helped bind a fractious new country together.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026

“The tighter you bind, the less you need,” said Eroshenko, the company’s CEO.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

Those carriers already challenged by the current economic environment, meanwhile, are in a bigger bind.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026

Better to have a tragic and sudden end than to have a long, drawn-out one where we realize that we’re just too different, and that love alone is not enough to bind us.

From "The Sun Is Also a Star" by Nicola Yoon

Bacteria inside the body depend on iron, but lactoferrin binds tightly to the element, making it much harder for microbes to access.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 28, 2026

Only through a renewed encounter with Athens, Jerusalem and Rome can we recover the intellectual and moral glue that binds a society together despite technological and cultural changes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

The list also reaches into the everyday commerce that binds the two economies, including cheese, seafood and cosmetics.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026

Nothing here binds a future administration, and courts almost never stop the government from disavowing promises its officials had no authority to make.

From Slate ● Aug. 10, 2026

Now that Jimmy and Roberta Chance are gone, what binds me to this world?

From "Counting by 7s" by Holly Goldberg Sloan

Abu Agila Mohammad Mas'ud Kheir Al-Marimi has alleged he was abducted by armed men and handed over "hooded and bound" to FBI agents, who had a plane waiting to fly him out of the country.

From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026

Continuing to squander so many opportunities is bound to come with a price.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026

"I'm bound to be, I am 103-and-a-half, and I was the youngest by two years," he said.

From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026

A pilot’s suspected attempt to crash a Boeing BA -0.79%decrease; down pointing triangle 737 MAX bound for Israel shows how one of aviation’s biggest safety threats is in the cockpit.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

The train we’re about to board is bound north, out of London.

From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin

Those commitments will become legally binding for Sanofi, it added.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026

The word bond should remind everyone—borrowers and investors alike—that debt is meant to be a binding commitment.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

At the end of last month, Trump hosted the leaders of US tech giants OpenAI, Anthropic, Nvidia, SpaceX, Meta, and Google at the White House where the executives signed a "morally binding" document.

From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026

That decision, they said, would focus on binding agreements like one towards electrification -- replacing technologies that burn fossil fuels directly, like diesel cars and gas heating, with electric alternatives.

From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026

“Biddy,” said I, after binding her to secrecy, “I want to be a gentleman.”

From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens