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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Messi’s owner and trainer, Laura Martin Contini, coached him to bound up to the first landing and pose.
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Esther Zuckerman, New York Times, 21 May 2024
As a result, architects responding to the problems of our time often do so in ways that are invisibly bound up with public policy and service (such as mentoring initiatives), and which are hidden beneath the façades of buildings that might look workaday.
—The New Yorker, 15 Apr. 2024
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Esther Zuckerman, New York Times, 21 May 2024
As a result, architects responding to the problems of our time often do so in ways that are invisibly bound up with public policy and service (such as mentoring initiatives), and which are hidden beneath the façades of buildings that might look workaday.
—The New Yorker, 15 Apr. 2024
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“Bound up.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bound%20up. Accessed 29 May. 2024.
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