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adjective

as in cemented

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verb

past tense of glue

as in bound

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Recent Examples of glued

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Garden Art Wine corks can be glued together with a hot glue gun to create decorative birdhouses and wreaths to display in the garden. — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 29 Apr. 2026

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Adjective

Each kit includes 36 pre-bonded clusters—enough for six applications—plus a non-stick applicator that makes placement a breeze.

— Amanda Le, InStyle, 14 Sep. 2026
Unlike clip- and tape-ins, these are pre-bonded strands that use partial keratin — a protein already found in the hair — as an adhesive.

— Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 19 May 2026

Definition of bonded

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Throughout the event, a guy bounds around, introducing the recordists, then crouching to cue their recordings on a laptop, his dark, longish hair under a black dad cap bearing the club’s name.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 5 Oct. 2026
Start with focused use cases where the data requirements are understood and basic (static versus real time), the operational consequence is bounded, and measurable value can be demonstrated.

— Claudio Laterreur, Forbes.com, 2 Oct. 2026

Definition of bound

Verb

Instead, metal strips showing the current registration were fastened atop the existing plate.

— Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2026
The splintered timbers, fastened together by rusted iron, emerged near an area where remains believed to be from the Warren Sawyer, a wooden schooner lost in 1884, have been found before.

— CBS News, CBS News, 29 Sep. 2026

Definition of fastened

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The result is seamless data transfer fused onto a single user interface.

— Dan Driscoll, Foreign Affairs, 28 Sep. 2026
Einstein’s theory fused space with time, and so if the three dimensions of space emerge from a spaceless point, then time should emerge from something timeless.

— Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 25 Sep. 2026

Definition of fused

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Earlier versions adhered more closely to the facts of what happened to Pam.

— Josh Rivera, USA Today, 3 Aug. 2026
But a new fastest time from UAE’s Florian Vermeersch on June 2 of this year — 23km at an average speed of 75kmh — suggests that not everyone has adhered.

— Chris Marshall-Bell, New York Times, 29 June 2026

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