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

Unlike Meta's Ray-Ban and Oakley models, the glasses function without needing a "tether" to a smartphone.

From BBC ● Jun. 17, 2026

The drone that led Gauntlet I was Shrike, a first-person-view, or FPV, strike drone using a 12-mile fiber-optic tether.

From Barron's ● Apr. 28, 2026

He followed Kaz to the lip of the roof where Inej had secured a tether that ran from the top of the prison to the embassy sector roof below.

From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo

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

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

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 2, 2024

His approach tethers DNA probes dubbed "Inverse Molecular Sentinels" to the points of star-shaped gold nanoparticles.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 13, 2024

And then when you factor our own story into what this piece already is, it tethers us to these characters in ways that feel very personal.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2023

The tethers of light stretched around Mini, gathering her up and yanking her out of the creature’s throat.

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

They can wind up with a form of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease like emphysema, tethered to oxygen as their health declines.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026

I felt tethered, and felt I would be tethered to this for the rest of my life.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 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

Javed eventually moved to the UK, part of the vast stream of Indians who leave home searching for financial stability abroad but remain emotionally tethered to their families.

From BBC ● Jun. 1, 2026

We tethered ourselves together with a long rope so we wouldn’t get lost in the darkness.

From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri

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

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

From MarketWatch ● Jan. 29, 2026

Fears that construction could peter out haven’t deterred towns from tethering their fortunes more tightly to the corporate spending sprees and stratospheric Wall Street valuations that are fueling talk of a bubble.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2025

Without VAP to anchor the mitochondria by tethering it to the actin cytoskeleton, the mitochondria drifted away from synapses over time.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 4, 2024

He set the hawk on the top slat of the fence in front of the church, tethering the bird with its leather leg straps so it wouldn’t fly away.

From Anya and the Dragon by Sofiya Pasternack