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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Even before the legendary gunslinger Wild Bill Hickok was shot dead holding aces and eights at a Deadwood poker table, the practice of gambling—as a pastime and an enterprise—has been bound up in American identity.
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Will Gottsegen, The Atlantic, 22 Jan. 2026
For Paris fashion observer Benedict Epinay, the grief was bound up with memory.
—Thomas Adamson, Chicago Tribune, 21 Jan. 2026
From primary school curricula, to the construction of high schools, to the funding of research at elite universities, education and politics are awkwardly bound up in the United States—and therefore resistant to transformation or even evolution without considerable drama.
—Eric Holcomb, Time, 16 Jan. 2026
Now his life had become too bound up in theirs.
—Literary Hub, 12 Jan. 2026
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Will Gottsegen, The Atlantic, 22 Jan. 2026
For Paris fashion observer Benedict Epinay, the grief was bound up with memory.
—Thomas Adamson, Chicago Tribune, 21 Jan. 2026
From primary school curricula, to the construction of high schools, to the funding of research at elite universities, education and politics are awkwardly bound up in the United States—and therefore resistant to transformation or even evolution without considerable drama.
—Eric Holcomb, Time, 16 Jan. 2026
Now his life had become too bound up in theirs.
—Literary Hub, 12 Jan. 2026
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“Bound up.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bound%20up. Accessed 30 Jan. 2026.
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