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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Gum arabic’s importance was therefore bound up in political conquest and colonial dominance in West Africa.
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Erik Zou, JSTOR Daily, 25 Apr. 2025
But philosophers have too often tossed it aside in favor of guilt, which appears to be more bound up in morality.
—Dan Piepenbring, Harpers Magazine, 28 Mar. 2025
In Germany, where memory and forgetting are bound up with vast guilt, the question of how to handle these remains is especially fraught.
—Natasha Frost, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2025
Where Brits feel like suspicious maniacs—one of the most rewarding things about UK Traits is seeing relatively clever people so certain in their wrongness—Americans are lambs to the slaughter, bound up in factions blind to internal threats.
—Raven Smith, Vogue, 12 Feb. 2025
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Erik Zou, JSTOR Daily, 25 Apr. 2025
But philosophers have too often tossed it aside in favor of guilt, which appears to be more bound up in morality.
—Dan Piepenbring, Harpers Magazine, 28 Mar. 2025
In Germany, where memory and forgetting are bound up with vast guilt, the question of how to handle these remains is especially fraught.
—Natasha Frost, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2025
Where Brits feel like suspicious maniacs—one of the most rewarding things about UK Traits is seeing relatively clever people so certain in their wrongness—Americans are lambs to the slaughter, bound up in factions blind to internal threats.
—Raven Smith, Vogue, 12 Feb. 2025
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“Bound up.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bound%20up. Accessed 2 May. 2025.
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