tether

I wanted a little culinary tether, some proof of belonging, the opportunity to say, “Oh, yeah, I know a place, too.”

From Salon ● Jul. 11, 2026

At the film’s aching core is the romantic tether between the boys that refuses to die even in the face of gory attacks, painful betrayals and even uncertainty among the two of them.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2026

With more than 11 million users, Nobitex is the primary gateway for Iranian citizens to swap rials for tether, which they can convert into other currencies abroad.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 9, 2026

They have sleeping bags that tether to the wall to keep them from floating around the capsule.

From Barron's ● Apr. 4, 2026

She imagined a door to the Otherworld with a tether of light wrapped around its handle.

From "Aru Shah and the End of Time" by Roshani Chokshi

But the way it tethers its bruised healers to the human condition’s laws of gravity is potent medicine for coping.

From Salon ● Feb. 7, 2026

“Sometimes I have to try really hard to find at least one thing that tethers a character to me,” Richardson says.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 15, 2026

This new ordinance tethers future minimum wage increases to the rate of inflation.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 2, 2024

While these tethers naturally want to curl up on themselves, they are held straight by a segment of DNA that is tailored to bind with the target microRNA being tested for.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 13, 2024

Minya’s will was reasserted, the tethers once more drawn taut, but they all felt, to a one, a gasp of freedom too fleeing to exploit.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor

With rare exception, the camera stays tethered to the vehicle.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026

Due to his ageing fabric, he now usually appears tethered rather than taking to the skies.

From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026

The original version of Atlas, reliant on heavy hydraulics and tethered to a cable, was unveiled by Boston Dynamics more than a decade ago as part of a U.S. military robotics competition for search-and-rescue operations.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026

"People are moving away from the traditional mindset that certain jobs must be tethered to a specific gender," Chen Ning, the 27-year-old founder, told AFP.

From Barron's ● Jul. 8, 2026

Her legs felt heavy, as though weights had been tethered to them.

From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini

Colonel Parker, Elvis’s manager, kept his cash cow on a leash, tethering him first to middling B-pictures, then to casinos.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 19, 2026

As a result, more companies are changing their business models, raising gobs of cash and tethering their fortunes to the fate of AI behemoths.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 6, 2026

It may now be tethering on the edge of a bigger drop.

From MarketWatch ● Jan. 29, 2026

You could, for instance, be charged for tethering your goat on a public street, fixing a leaky tap without a licence or not naming the owner of a building when asked.

From BBC ● Apr. 22, 2025

So they turned aside and spent some hours at the fair, tethering the horses near the gate, giving a penny to a lad for watching them.

From "The Door in the Wall" by Marguerite de Angeli