beholden to

idiom

formal

: owing a favor or gift to (someone) : having obligations to (someone)

politicians who are beholden to special interest groups

She works for herself, and so is beholden to no one.

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The latter isn’t as nice as the 120Hz OLED screen found on Apple’s premium iPads, though, and the Air is still beholden to the same aging Touch ID sensor for logging in as previous models, as opposed to Face ID. —

Brandon Widder, The Verge, 30 Oct. 2024 The thinking is that the leadership dynamic works best when a majority of a company’s board members are independent of executive leadership; i.e. the board isn’t controlled by directors who are somehow beholden to members of management. —

Michael Peregrine, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2024 This shift left the country beholden to cheap Russian oil and gas to power its manufacturing while the country waited for alternative renewable sources to advance. —

Byryan Hogg, Fortune Europe, 23 Oct. 2024 Photo: Lionsgate via Youtube Megalopolis itself is beholden to the same contradictions as Oxman’s work. —

Kate Wagner, Curbed, 21 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for beholden to