manacled

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He stays gruff, of course, but you sense that Ray is as manacled by his authoritarian role as Colin literally is in his hungry, slurping devotion to his master.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 5, 2026

There were no triumphal demonstrations, in the tradition of ancient Rome, with manacled Russian captives and their plundered treasures paraded down Pennsylvania Avenue.

From Salon • Mar. 3, 2019

“I am leashed it looks like, manacled; cobwebbed, that’s closer,” she says.

From Slate • Aug. 9, 2018

On any given day, hundreds of people course through the narrow corridors — lawyers, manacled prisoners and their families.

From New York Times • Aug. 15, 2017

I am leashed, it looks like, manacled; cobwebbed, that’s closer.

From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood