GYVE Synonyms: 47 Similar and Opposite Words

gyve

verb

Definition of gyve

as in to bind

to confine or restrain with or as if with chains a woman who was gyved by a fear of being alone in the world

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Underneath that messaging is a feud between the party’s left flank and centrist arm that’s bound to erupt after Tuesday’s results.

— Nicholas Wu, semafor.com, 2 Nov. 2026
Researchers can tune a network’s structure using this self-adjusting behavior, which limits how many neighbors each particle binds to.

— Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 2 Nov. 2026

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But Ostlund scored only Buffalo’s fifth power-play goal of the season midway through the first before Thompson tied it with his sixth goal.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 30 Oct. 2026
Offscreen, the part tied Koenig to the franchise for the rest of his career.

— Daniel Ross Goodman, The Washington Examiner, 30 Oct. 2026

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Perhaps capitalism can be appropriately fettered within the confines of a select few cities, inspiring a nonviolent, nationwide socialist revolution.

— Idrees Kahloon, The Atlantic, 6 July 2026
While some players were able to weather that storm – defenseman Joel Edmundson played all 82 games for the first time in a career often fettered by injuries – others paid a price.

— Andrew Knoll, Daily News, 30 Apr. 2026

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