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
Each of these is available elsewhere in the camera user interface, but Apple tethers them to the Camera Control for easier access.
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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
To scale up operations, companies need to modernize their approach to cybersecurity rather than tethering their workforce to particular locations.
—Kris Lahiri, Forbes, 17 Oct. 2024
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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
To scale up operations, companies need to modernize their approach to cybersecurity rather than tethering their workforce to particular locations.
—Kris Lahiri, Forbes, 17 Oct. 2024
See all Example Sentences for tether
Recent Examples of Synonyms for tether
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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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Tristan is a dapper, attractive, strapping young man who comes across as a younger brother of sorts.Mark Peikert, IndieWire, 31 Oct. 2024
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Wrapping up an extended 235-day mission, three NASA astronauts and a Russian cosmonaut strapped into their SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule and undocked from the International Space Station on Wednesday, targeting a pre-dawn Friday splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico.William Harwood, CBS News, 23 Oct. 2024
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Fernando Valenzuela literally roped me into his life.Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2024
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However, José Ramírez roped an RBI double to make it 6-3.Homero De la Fuente, CNN, 19 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 21 Nov. 2024.
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