tethers

verb

present tense third-person singular of tether
as in ties
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 tethers As someone who tethers himself to playoff odds, repeatedly speaks of intelligent spending and has a general manager in Carter Hawkins who once referenced 2032 to explain the lack of big moves last summer, Hoyer has had his critics. — Sahadev Sharma, New York Times, 4 Aug. 2026 More adventurous than the Solterra, the Uncharted wears a thin line across the nose that tethers its LED running lights to its logo. — Marty Padgett, The Drive, 26 Feb. 2026 Secrets that could take down a company, an industry; that's a bond that tethers you for life. — Melissa Fleur Afshar, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Dec. 2025 The nature of my work tethers me to London. — Rohan Banerjee, Time, 23 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for tethers
  1. ties
  2. binds
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  • The shower curtain, which can be either fabric or plastic, goes outside the tub and ties your bathroom’s aesthetic together.
    — BestReviews, Mercury News, 11 Aug. 2026
  • Terafab’s website ties the factory to Musk’s longer-term vision of AI infrastructure.
    — Joshua Hong, Fortune, 10 Aug. 2026
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  • The drug binds to a pocket that forms only when KRAS carries one of these mutations.
    — William A. Haseltine, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2026
  • This then binds to specific serotonin receptors in the brain, which temporarily rebuilds the networks involved in memory, emotions and cognition interact.
    — Helen Carefoot, Flow Space, 5 Aug. 2026
Definition of binds

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“Tethers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tethers. Accessed 13 Aug. 2026.

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