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Recent Examples of bungee cord
In 2024, Jake Roos and his team at People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) discovered a 3-year-old Chihuahua who was chained outside with a bungee cord wrapped around his neck and ticks all over his body.
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Desiree Anello, PEOPLE, 14 Oct. 2025
Lydia Peckham had climbed one of the taller trees in her family’s apple orchard in New Zealand, strapping a camera to a neighboring branch with a bungee cord and placing herself opposite it.
—Mia Galuppo, HollywoodReporter, 9 Sep. 2025
The clasp comes with a bungee cord that has D-rings at either end, for extending the reach between the T8 and the clasp.
—New Atlas, 6 Aug. 2025
The convertible sneaker style is characterized by a removable zip-off micro ripstop shroud with bungee cord closure and cord-lock.
—Stephen Garner, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
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Desiree Anello, PEOPLE, 14 Oct. 2025
Lydia Peckham had climbed one of the taller trees in her family’s apple orchard in New Zealand, strapping a camera to a neighboring branch with a bungee cord and placing herself opposite it.
—Mia Galuppo, HollywoodReporter, 9 Sep. 2025
The clasp comes with a bungee cord that has D-rings at either end, for extending the reach between the T8 and the clasp.
—New Atlas, 6 Aug. 2025
The convertible sneaker style is characterized by a removable zip-off micro ripstop shroud with bungee cord closure and cord-lock.
—Stephen Garner, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bungee cord
Noun
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All stays include breakfast, but some include lunch and dinner as well.—
Asonta Benetti,
Condé Nast Traveler,
30 Jan. 2026
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Numerous properties are offering special perks for guests looking into those activities, like the Blue Lagoon Iceland and even Three Camel Lodge in Mongolia’s Gobi Desert, where guests can often see Orion, the Big Dipper and the Milky Way during the same stay.—
Ramsey Qubein,
Forbes.com,
30 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Just a really cool guy to be around and get to know.—
Nick Harris,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
3 Feb. 2026
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That said, Mike presents as an uplifting, jovial kind of guy.—
Rafaela Bassili,
Vulture,
3 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Let cool to room temperature on a wire rack, about 45 minutes.—
Kimberly Holland,
Southern Living,
3 Feb. 2026
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The team didn’t just use a standard wire screen.—
Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
3 Feb. 2026
Noun
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What’s happening in Minneapolis isn’t a policy debate playing out on cable news.—
Dev Patnaik,
Forbes.com,
27 Jan. 2026
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The decision was delayed for months due to fears among lawmakers that the sprawling complex, which will sit near fiber-optic cables carrying sensitive data for financial firms, could pose security risks.—
Christian Edwards,
CNN Money,
27 Jan. 2026
Noun
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The package also typically includes a small gift and a VIP souvenir lanyard.—
Laura Sirikul,
Forbes.com,
29 Jan. 2026
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Keep it close—and securely attached to you—with a sleek phone lanyard.—
Kelsey Glennon,
Travel + Leisure,
26 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Rule breakers Two spectators ducked the rope line late in the day along the 18th fairway and raced to the other side.—
Kirk Kenney,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
31 Jan. 2026
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Though the rope suggests tidy metaphors of unity, coherence, and formal integrity, a playful but insistent messiness effloresces in Simms’s entanglements, throwing any seeming wholeness into question.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
30 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Dooley untied the cord that held the bundle together like a Christmas present.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
28 Jan. 2026
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Don’t use indoor cords outdoors in winter—or any other time of year for that matter—because they aren’t designed to handle moisture, sunlight, and temperature fluctuations and can be a fire hazard.—
Karen Brewer Grossman,
Southern Living,
27 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Welcome to Screen Gab, the newsletter for everyone who is eager for another round of Regency-era declarations of love, unrealistically high standards of romance and string covers of pop music to feel alive again.—
Yvonne Villarreal,
Los Angeles Times,
30 Jan. 2026
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The game against the Kraken wasn’t the most egregious of the Leafs’ latest string of losses, but at this point, moral victories hardly matter.—
James Mirtle,
New York Times,
30 Jan. 2026
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“Bungee cord.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bungee%20cord. Accessed 5 Feb. 2026.
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