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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Belly is a sweet everygirl upon whom viewers can seamlessly project, but as my colleague Elise Taylor astutely argued, her identity is all too bound up in the Fisher brothers.
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Vogue, 11 Sep. 2025
That value is ironically and necessarily bound up with independence from government control, even as its realization depends on receiving enormous sums of government money.
—Jeannie Suk Gersen, New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2025
Last year, Yang began to use analog simulations to tackle how the strong force might have behaved during some of the universe’s very earliest moments, when the quarks and gluons that later became bound up in hadrons may have existed as an unbound soup, called quark-gluon plasma.
—Shalma Wegsman, Quanta Magazine, 5 Sep. 2025
Starting in 2022, Stricker expanded on her practice of painting the all-too-human by introducing two new motifs, very different at first glance, but both closely bound up with feelings of embarrassment and even shame: feet and primates.
—Moritz Scheper, Artforum, 1 Sep. 2025
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Vogue, 11 Sep. 2025
That value is ironically and necessarily bound up with independence from government control, even as its realization depends on receiving enormous sums of government money.
—Jeannie Suk Gersen, New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2025
Last year, Yang began to use analog simulations to tackle how the strong force might have behaved during some of the universe’s very earliest moments, when the quarks and gluons that later became bound up in hadrons may have existed as an unbound soup, called quark-gluon plasma.
—Shalma Wegsman, Quanta Magazine, 5 Sep. 2025
Starting in 2022, Stricker expanded on her practice of painting the all-too-human by introducing two new motifs, very different at first glance, but both closely bound up with feelings of embarrassment and even shame: feet and primates.
—Moritz Scheper, Artforum, 1 Sep. 2025
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“Bound up.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bound%20up. Accessed 13 Sep. 2025.
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