as in to tie
to attach (someone or something) to something else by or as if by means of a line or cord
I tethered the boat to the dock before coming ashore.
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Recent Examples of tether
Its cordless design means you won’t be tethered to an outlet, giving you the freedom to whiz around your home like a cleaning pro.
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Claire Rutter, Rolling Stone, 5 Oct. 2024
Each of these is available elsewhere in the camera user interface, but Apple tethers them to the Camera Control for easier access.
—PCMAG, 27 Sep. 2024
She is no longer tethered by a desire to critique her own body or indulge in feeling like her worth is tied to her star status.
—Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 21 Sep. 2024
In a previous era, his provocative ugliness would have been tethered to discussions of ruinous performative excess rather than evidentiary of the phenomenal force of the Cage Rage.
—Nicholas Bell, SPIN, 4 Sep. 2024
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Claire Rutter, Rolling Stone, 5 Oct. 2024
Each of these is available elsewhere in the camera user interface, but Apple tethers them to the Camera Control for easier access.
—PCMAG, 27 Sep. 2024
She is no longer tethered by a desire to critique her own body or indulge in feeling like her worth is tied to her star status.
—Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 21 Sep. 2024
In a previous era, his provocative ugliness would have been tethered to discussions of ruinous performative excess rather than evidentiary of the phenomenal force of the Cage Rage.
—Nicholas Bell, SPIN, 4 Sep. 2024
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Boost’s fastest downloads, up to 1Gbps, come on phones such as Samsung’s Galaxy S24 that support four-channel carrier aggregation, in which the network ties multiple 5G channels together to maximize throughput.Rob Pegoraro, PCMAG, 11 Nov. 2024
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Jokic tipped in his own miss with 49 seconds left to tie the game and set up for Denver’s fifth win that has come down to the last possession of regulation.Bennett Durando, The Denver Post, 10 Nov. 2024
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The latest advertising venture to hit the city: LED boxes strapped to the back of delivery scooters.Martin Vassolo, Axios, 19 Nov. 2024
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Besides the daily recording of blood pressure and weight measurements, the programme relies chiefly on a midday rest taken with a warm water bottle strapped to the stomach (to stimulate liver function) and the injunction to take gentle exercise.Bill Prince, theweek, 7 Nov. 2024
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John Dutton has roped his last steer, guzzled his last cup of Taylor Sheridan’s Bosque Ranch coffee, gone off to that big pasture in the sky.Bethy Squires, Vulture, 10 Nov. 2024
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Then, the man who carried the Yankees’ offense in Game 3, Giancarlo Stanton, once again came up clutch with an RBI single that scored Aaron Judge, who finally roped a baseball this postseason.Scott Thompson, Fox News, 11 Oct. 2024
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Hoping that Brendan would find it in his heart to spare her husband’s life, and knowing that the IRA was bound to discover his double-identity sooner rather than later, Kathleen confesses to Brendan.Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 14 Nov. 2024
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But viewers are bound to tune in all the same, as the show about a Montana ranch owner and his family has broken ratings records for years.Anya Jaremko-Greenwold, The Week US, theweek, 13 Nov. 2024
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“Tether.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tether. Accessed 28 Nov. 2024.
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