Example Sentences

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Colonel Parker, Elvis’s manager, kept his cash cow on a leash, tethering him first to middling B-pictures, then to casinos.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 19, 2026

As a result, more companies are changing their business models, raising gobs of cash and tethering their fortunes to the fate of AI behemoths.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 6, 2026

It may now be tethering on the edge of a bigger drop.

From MarketWatch • Jan. 29, 2026

Without VAP to anchor the mitochondria by tethering it to the actin cytoskeleton, the mitochondria drifted away from synapses over time.

From Science Daily • Jan. 4, 2024

As Katz raced past me, I seized hold of the rope tethering my wrists to the pipe overhead and swung myself forward, kicking out with both my feet.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros