as in to bind
to confine or restrain with or as if with chains
a woman who was gyved by a fear of being alone in the world
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His crushing final monologue, in which Vladimir confronts his own nihilism, is as potent as anything you're bound to see on Broadway this year.—
Patrick Ryan,
USA Today,
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Storing cheese on your refrigerator shelves or worse, in the door, are bound to cause issues more quickly.—
Katie Rosenhouse,
Southern Living,
28 Sep. 2025
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David Rosenberg, founder of the economic and market insights firm Rosenberg Research, similarly highlighted flaws with the gauge, including the use of GDP, which includes government sector activity that isn’t tied to corporate profits or future earnings.—
Hugh Cameron,
MSNBC Newsweek,
1 Oct. 2025
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Your entire life is tied to your job.—
Anniek Bao,
CNBC,
1 Oct. 2025
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This comes in the wake of millions of apps being dumped from Play Store for not being good enough and an expansion of Google’s Play Integrity API to fetter app behaviors on phones no longer eligible for security updates — Android 12 or older.—
Zak Doffman,
Forbes.com,
26 Aug. 2025
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It’s become a common refrain by the government that the president’s executive power cannot be fettered by the courts.—
Ella Lee,
The Hill,
19 Mar. 2025
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“Gyve.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gyve. Accessed 2 Oct. 2025.
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