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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Managerial hirings aren’t beholden to restrictive roster building rules, meaning theoretically any owner with a good elevator pitch and a deep wallet could target any manager on earth.
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Ian Nicholas Quillen, Forbes, 26 Nov. 2024
The Pac-12 legacy bowls are not beholden to select teams within one game of each other, so USC could jump Washington State for the Vegas Bowl, for instance, despite a multi-win difference in the teams’ records.
—Scott Dochterman, The Athletic, 25 Nov. 2024
John Hsu’s frightfully entertaining Taiwanese horror-comedy imagines a world where the dead are just as beholden to the pressures of fame as the living, and an industry has grown around ambitious apparitions building their personal brands.
—Katie Rife, IndieWire, 27 Sep. 2024
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
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Ian Nicholas Quillen, Forbes, 26 Nov. 2024
The Pac-12 legacy bowls are not beholden to select teams within one game of each other, so USC could jump Washington State for the Vegas Bowl, for instance, despite a multi-win difference in the teams’ records.
—Scott Dochterman, The Athletic, 25 Nov. 2024
John Hsu’s frightfully entertaining Taiwanese horror-comedy imagines a world where the dead are just as beholden to the pressures of fame as the living, and an industry has grown around ambitious apparitions building their personal brands.
—Katie Rife, IndieWire, 27 Sep. 2024
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
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“Beholden to.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/beholden%20to. Accessed 15 Dec. 2024.
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