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roped

verb

past tense of rope

as in strapped

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If Bitcoin remains mostly dormant monetary property, miners remain tied to block rewards, transaction fees, treasury strategy, power markets, and adjacent infrastructure plays.

— Sean Lee, Forbes.com, 27 July 2026
Rule 9 - Showdown tiebreaker If the game is still tied at the end of the two-hour time limit, Banana Ball has its own version of extra innings.

— Idaho Statesman, Idaho Statesman, 27 July 2026

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The waist, for example, was cinched particularly tightly and emphasized in the 1940s and ’50s.

— Kelly Niesen, Glamour, 24 July 2026
Victoria and David Beckham brought power-couple style to the final, with Victoria in a monochromatic white look cinched by a brown belt and David dressed in a sharp suit.

— Amanda Le, InStyle, 20 July 2026

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In simple terms, the company is developing something that receives a photon and then uses an optical switch to direct it into a path bounded by highly reflective mirrors.

— Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 26 July 2026
Indeed, the same person can find his or her existence bounded conceptually by both models at different times and in different contexts.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 24 July 2026

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Loosely Wrapped Over a Pair of Fluid Trousers Pleated pants, a striped button-up shirt, and summer-ready accessories elevate to a whole new level with Chan Luu’s cashmere and silk scarf threaded through the belt loops.

— Cortne Bonilla, Vogue, 16 July 2026
Carlisle and Childers also found a kinship in their studies of Eastern Religion, an exploration that is deeply threaded through the journey of Snipe Hunter.

— Marissa R. Moss, Rolling Stone, 15 July 2026

Definition of threaded

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Rolling around inside my coffin would be a gigantic ball of hair trussed by a Möbius strip of fingernail.

— Esther Yi, New Yorker, 14 June 2026
For the last 15 or so years, celebrities have been, in general, more trussed up, as red carpets have become a heightened economic prospective for stars and designers alike.

— Leah Dolan, CNN Money, 23 Oct. 2025

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