chained

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"Every day we get reports of, horses, dogs, pigs, goats, everything. So many animals being either stranded, abandoned, locked up and chained," Kenny said.

From BBC • Mar. 13, 2026

Outside the capital's national police facility known as Zone 7, family members had chained themselves to prison gates, while some had spent weeks sleeping in tents.

From Barron's • Mar. 8, 2026

By contrast, the German Reich was unfortunate in its ally Austria-Hungary during World War I; one observer likened it to “being chained to a rotting corpse.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 12, 2025

“It is keeping people chained and, in a sense, locking up their potential and their dreams,” said Pacheco, who serves as president and chief executive of TheDream.US, a scholarship program.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 11, 2025

“The door was locked and chained on the inside,” said Poirot thoughtfully.

From "Murder on the Orient Express" by Agatha Christie