bound up
adjective
: closely involved or associated
—usually used with with
his life was bound up with the town's history
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Where Brits feel like suspicious maniacs—one of the most rewarding things about UK Traits is seeing relatively clever people so certain in their wrongness—Americans are lambs to the slaughter, bound up in factions blind to internal threats.
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Raven Smith, Vogue, 12 Feb. 2025
Listen to this article Authorities are accusing two men of killing a Norwood Park man found bound up with duct tape and an electrical cord in his home earlier this week.
—Caroline Kubzansky, Chicago Tribune, 1 Feb. 2025
Hopefully the chemicals are bound up or broken down in the soil.
—Tom MacCubbin, Orlando Sentinel, 18 Jan. 2025
Indeed, the Kremlin’s systematic assault on historical memory is tightly bound up with the war on Ukraine.
—Leon Aron, The Atlantic, 5 Dec. 2024
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Raven Smith, Vogue, 12 Feb. 2025
Listen to this article Authorities are accusing two men of killing a Norwood Park man found bound up with duct tape and an electrical cord in his home earlier this week.
—Caroline Kubzansky, Chicago Tribune, 1 Feb. 2025
Hopefully the chemicals are bound up or broken down in the soil.
—Tom MacCubbin, Orlando Sentinel, 18 Jan. 2025
Indeed, the Kremlin’s systematic assault on historical memory is tightly bound up with the war on Ukraine.
—Leon Aron, The Atlantic, 5 Dec. 2024
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“Bound up.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bound%20up. Accessed 23 Feb. 2025.
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