tied up
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He bought shares in a company on the urging of a family friend who worked at it, and “had most of his wealth, including his pension, tied up in the company’s shares.”
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 15, 2026
Much of Sam Altman’s wealth is tied up in a vast network of tech companies that include everything from nuclear fusion to a startup trying to create a new city on the Mediterranean.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 23, 2026
It’s all tied up with wider concerns about how top-down governmental controls over internet access will affect adults too.
From Slate ● Jun. 18, 2026
“You know the last person who got tied up in courts on the campaign trail?”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 16, 2026
When the hippos were silent, she imagined them creeping around the tree where she had tied up.
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
Matching piling numbers of calls with tied-up ambulances is putting control centre staff under pressure.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2021
“Hope” wears a vaguely Roman robe and cape, comforting a tied-up boy with absurdly oversized wings, all set in a version of a Renaissance city like Florence.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 20, 2019
You can rest assured that Blair Witch will feature the most terrifying bundles of tied-up sticks you'll see this fall.
From The Verge ● Aug. 30, 2016
Reporters elsewhere listened by phone as she described how Roosevelt's refusal to shoot a tied-up Louisiana black bear for a hunt trophy in 1902 inspired teddy bears.
From US News ● Mar. 10, 2016
Beside him is a woman in a long flowery-patterned dress, tightly tied-up plaits crossed over her head and a face that looks to be held in place almost as tightly as her hair.
From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler
