bound
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Next to them, a bachelorette party bound for Croatia sips Champagne.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026
China and North Korea share a 1,400km-long border and are bound by a defence pact - the only one China has with any country.
From BBC • Jun. 5, 2026
When galaxies collide and eventually combine, their central black holes can become gravitationally bound, forming what scientists call a supermassive black hole binary.
From Science Daily • Jun. 5, 2026
It mirrors my own childhood in the 1980s and ’90s in the U.S., when my friends and I spent entire summer days on our bikes, bound only by the rule to be home by dinner.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 2, 2026
It struck Burry: Wall Street is bound to do the same thing with subprime mortgage bonds, too.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
Vocabulary lists containing bound
The SAT: Multiple-Meaning Words, List 1
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"Romeo and Juliet" by William Shakespeare, Act I
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Two-Faced Words: Contronyms
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