bound up

adjective

Definition of bound up

: closely involved or associated —usually used with with his life was bound up with the town's history

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Music is more complicated, though, because it is fundamentally bound up with numbers. — Paul Grimstad, The New Republic, "Can You Measure How Good a Song Is?," 21 June 2018 Holmes, though, said lingering white supremacy is bound up in all of Mississippi’s problems. — Washington Post, "Protesters burn Mississippi flag, say it symbolizes racism," 18 June 2018 But that same general shape could also represent a traditional Polynesian hairstyle for men of high rank: long hair bound up in a topknot, called a pukao, which is what gives the hats their name. — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, "How does a preindustrial society put a 13-ton hat on a statue?," 5 June 2018 In Kaphar’s version, the Italian and his shipmates are literally bound up with cloth that’s been shoved into their body forms on the canvas. — Alicia Ault, Smithsonian, "Two Artists in Search of Missing History," 5 Apr. 2018 Although Andover might not fit everyone's definition of a core democratic system, the school's early history was bound up with that of American democracy. — Richard Mcgill Murphy, Town & Country, "How John Palfrey Is Bringing America's Most Elite Boarding School Into the Digital Age," 7 July 2015 The experience of interiority and the outside conditions controlling our bodies are bound up in a way that only imprisonment unites so literally. — Josephine Livingstone, The New Republic, "The bold, vivid worlds of Rachel Kushner’s novels," 7 June 2018 As the term 'prestige construction' hints, hypercorrection is intimately bound up with issues of social class. — Melissa Mohr, The Christian Science Monitor, "Bending over backward to be wrong," 7 June 2018 Beneath the modern coral formations Jimenez studies is another trove of data bound up in fossilized coral cores. — Elizabeth Svoboda, Scientific American, "Cores from Coral Reefs Hold Secrets of the Seas’ Past and Future," 6 June 2018

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