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But Mitchell says so much more by saying nothing overt about those things, and instead, depicting a family who wants nothing more than to get out of the bind they’ve found themselves in.

From Salon ● Aug. 20, 2026

If any sufficiently senior official could sign away tax liability with a memo, the revenue laws would bind only taxpayers without friends in the government.

From Slate ● Aug. 10, 2026

It destroys the ties that bind and encourages anger and petulance.

From Salon ● Jul. 31, 2026

However, neither compound fully restored the protein's ability to bind to its receptor.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 24, 2026

I apologize for the double negative, but it’s a real double negative of a situation, a bind from which negating the negation is truly the only escape.

From "Turtles All the Way Down" by John Green

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

The team also wants to map the full sequence of events that occurs after BRP binds to its target.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 24, 2026

The Ocean of Peace Alliance elevated Fiji to one of Australia's few treaty allies and binds each nation to come to the other's "mutual defence".

From Barron's ● Jul. 9, 2026

And, unlike the AD100-approved interior designers and architects that so many Hollywood stars rely on to bring their dream dwellings to life, the tie that binds these A-listers is actually accessible to the average homeowner.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 6, 2026

God blessed our home with the love that binds .

From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright

Copper that would normally sit across global markets is being loaded onto ships bound for U.S. ports and warehouses, allowing it to clear customs before new levies might take effect.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 27, 2026

Some subsequently appeared in the slaughter pipeline; inspection records showed mustangs ending up on trucks bound for Canadian slaughter plants.

From Salon ● Aug. 27, 2026

Those documents are bound to include historic benchmarks, which reflect the idea that AI should be understood as a history-defining industrial revolution.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026

"It's better to find your position within the technological wave. In the process of progress, structural changes are bound to occur, and these structural changes are exactly where students' future employment opportunities lie."

From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026

His eyelids were freezing together, and soon they would be bound shut as ice pellets whipped his face from all directions.

From "The Very, Very Far North" by Dan Bar-el

The changes would require a modification to the airport's legally binding Planning Agreement, with the final decision likely to rest with the infrastructure minister.

From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026

I had already picked up a white onion, although an onion is hardly a binding commitment; so many good dinners begin that way.

From Salon ● Aug. 20, 2026

“We believe that these conditions, if secured through a binding agreement, will largely serve this purpose,” the said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026

"An hour or two of exposure is enough to trigger glycosylation, or the binding of smoke to the sugars in the grapes," said oenology consultant Clement Prelat, who is advising winemakers in the area.

From Barron's ● Aug. 6, 2026

The leather binding of Eddie’s journal lay open and empty on the ground.

From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia