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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Gaga is a textbook Manhattan overachiever, beholden to conflicting but deeply held passions.
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Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 11 Mar. 2025
Reality shows establish, and then are beholden to, their own rules.
—Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 6 Mar. 2025
Those concerns came amid the Trump Department of Justice’s effort to drop Adams’ federal corruption indictment without prejudice, an arrangement many say makes Adams beholden to Trump.
—Chris Sommerfeldt, New York Daily News, 4 Mar. 2025
Much of it, like the frequent suggestion that Trump is somehow a Kremlin agent, or beholden to Putin, is without evidence.
—Matthew Chance, CNN, 2 Mar. 2025
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Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 11 Mar. 2025
Reality shows establish, and then are beholden to, their own rules.
—Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 6 Mar. 2025
Those concerns came amid the Trump Department of Justice’s effort to drop Adams’ federal corruption indictment without prejudice, an arrangement many say makes Adams beholden to Trump.
—Chris Sommerfeldt, New York Daily News, 4 Mar. 2025
Much of it, like the frequent suggestion that Trump is somehow a Kremlin agent, or beholden to Putin, is without evidence.
—Matthew Chance, CNN, 2 Mar. 2025
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“Beholden to.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/beholden%20to. Accessed 18 Mar. 2025.
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