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as in bound
to confine or restrain with or as if with chains
unwilling to shackle the dogs to the wall of the house
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to create difficulty for the work or activity of
shackled by poverty and ignorance
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Recent Examples of shackled
Frank Scheck,
HollywoodReporter,
25 June 2026
Written by Evan Cooper, Blood On The Promontory finds five convicts trying to escape through the mountains following a violent train robbery, while shackled together by foot.
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Rosy Cordero,
Deadline,
25 June 2026
Johnson said that he was left shackled to a bed at HCMC for five days, with federal agents guarding him and preventing him from contacting his family.
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Conor Wight,
CBS News,
21 June 2026
Mangione, dressed in a navy suit, was shackled at the hands for the entirety of Wednesday's hearing.
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Peter Charalambous,
ABC News,
17 June 2026
In northern Oregon, just before dawn in October 2025, Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers arrested and shackled two farmworkers on their way to work.
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Carol Rose Little,
The Conversation,
12 June 2026
Joaquin Escoto, 28, entered Stanislaus County Superior Court shackled at the wrists and ankles, wearing an orange-and-white jail uniform and sitting beside his attorney and a Spanish interpreter.
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Stepheny Price,
FOXNews.com,
2 June 2026
According to the lawsuit, four days after ZOR arrived at the facility, ICE officers shackled him and drove him to the Mexican border.
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Mateo Rosiles,
USA Today,
1 June 2026
On Thursday morning, the restaurant’s glass front doors were shackled.
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Reeti Malhotra
may 22,
Sacbee.com,
22 May 2026
Verb
Another vintage bit, which MTV also declined to air, involves Knoxville, dressed in an orange prison jumpsuit and shackled in handcuffs, entering a hardware store and asking for a hacksaw.
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Frank Scheck,
HollywoodReporter,
25 June 2026
Written by Evan Cooper, Blood On The Promontory finds five convicts trying to escape through the mountains following a violent train robbery, while shackled together by foot.
—
Rosy Cordero,
Deadline,
25 June 2026
Johnson said that he was left shackled to a bed at HCMC for five days, with federal agents guarding him and preventing him from contacting his family.
—
Conor Wight,
CBS News,
21 June 2026
Mangione, dressed in a navy suit, was shackled at the hands for the entirety of Wednesday's hearing.
—
Peter Charalambous,
ABC News,
17 June 2026
In northern Oregon, just before dawn in October 2025, Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers arrested and shackled two farmworkers on their way to work.
—
Carol Rose Little,
The Conversation,
12 June 2026
Joaquin Escoto, 28, entered Stanislaus County Superior Court shackled at the wrists and ankles, wearing an orange-and-white jail uniform and sitting beside his attorney and a Spanish interpreter.
—
Stepheny Price,
FOXNews.com,
2 June 2026
According to the lawsuit, four days after ZOR arrived at the facility, ICE officers shackled him and drove him to the Mexican border.
—
Mateo Rosiles,
USA Today,
1 June 2026
On Thursday morning, the restaurant’s glass front doors were shackled.
—
Reeti Malhotra
may 22,
Sacbee.com,
22 May 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for shackled
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Unlike standard wheels, which rely solely on air pressure to push the tire against the rim, beadlocks use a bolted outer ring to physically sandwich the tire in place.
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Over a century later, the Himalayan blackberry has spread far beyond the modest backyard bounds its importers envisioned, opting instead to take over indiscriminately and displace the native trailing blackberry (Rubus ursinus) in the process.
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What The $10 Million Cap Changes At the old $1 million ceiling, operational risk was bounded by the dollar amount.
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Withington noted that international sanctions have hampered Moscow’s ability to access the technology needed to develop new systems capable of engaging these Ukrainian attacks.
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Russia’s determination to maintain a tight grip on AI development has hampered its own efforts to advance the technology.
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Unofficial results for two special elections held Tuesday show the Minnesota House will remain tied heading into the 2026 legislative session.
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About 14 minutes after officers handcuffed Martin, officers could be seen carrying Martin out of the house, because, police said, the paramedics’ gurney could not make it inside the home.
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But prison guards threw the decision in the trash, handcuffed Landor to a chair and shaved his head, his lawyers said.
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Meanwhile, Australia assistant coach Paul Okon argued that their goalkeeper Patrick Beach was impeded during the play.
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They were said to have impeded its free movement, scratching and otherwise damaging the body work.
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The Golden Knights play a center-release system, where their defensemen don’t travel above the tops of circles, and both defensemen stay anchored close to their net, and their center does most of the work.
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Outrage over the remarks has grown as the Angels remain anchored at the bottom of the standings.
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Another told The Times she was arrested while high on fentanyl and had to detox without medication while chained to a metal bar for hours.
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The footage shows men and women with bags over their heads, chained to the wall in the underground tunnels, looking not that dissimilar from detainees at Abu Ghraib.
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