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as in limit
a real or imaginary point beyond which a person or thing cannot go
the language in the novel really is beyond the bounds of decency
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as in confines
the line or relatively narrow space that marks the outer limit of something
colored outside the bounds of the drawing
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as in to border
to serve as a border for
being bounded on all sides by the Alps has helped Switzerland maintain its neutrality
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as in determined
fully committed to achieving a goal
I am bound and determined to write a novel before I turn 30
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Recent Examples of bound
Bill Laytner, Detroit Free Press, 25 Oct. 2024
And all the other elements of this weeklong celebration—the dances, brunches, fashion shows, step shows, talent shows, parades, concerts and tailgates—display an unequivocal style beyond the bounds of ordinary definition.
—Bridgette Bartlett Royall, Essence, 15 Oct. 2024
Photographs & Text By Elliot Ross For Time, TIME, 19 Sep. 2024
The extra supply would keep prices at the pump from bounding high enough to attract media attention and provoke widespread grumbling throughout the population.
—Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2024
Alison Herman, Variety, 30 Sep. 2024
There’s a fundamental limit, a fundamental lower bound, on the amount of work required to erase information.
—Quanta Magazine, 12 Sep. 2024
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Noun
Lane ruled against granting the TRO, or temporary restraining order, saying O’Brien’s campaign wording appeared to be within the bounds of accepted campaign discourse as well as protected by his First Amendment right to free speech.
—Bill Laytner, Detroit Free Press, 25 Oct. 2024
And all the other elements of this weeklong celebration—the dances, brunches, fashion shows, step shows, talent shows, parades, concerts and tailgates—display an unequivocal style beyond the bounds of ordinary definition.
—Bridgette Bartlett Royall, Essence, 15 Oct. 2024
Verb
Thousands of swimming pools glitter like diamonds in a desert bounded by green rectangles of Kentucky bluegrass.
—Photographs & Text By Elliot Ross For Time, TIME, 19 Sep. 2024
The extra supply would keep prices at the pump from bounding high enough to attract media attention and provoke widespread grumbling throughout the population.
—Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2024
Adjective
Popular on Variety As for Harper herself, the rule-breaking maverick is homeward bound.
—Alison Herman, Variety, 30 Sep. 2024
There’s a fundamental limit, a fundamental lower bound, on the amount of work required to erase information.
—Quanta Magazine, 12 Sep. 2024
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And Powell made clear that the Fed is determined to maintain its statutory independence from Congress and the Presidency.Peter Green, Quartz, 9 Nov. 2024
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Appointment or not, all were determined to make it to the border and eventually Southern California.Patrick J. McDonnell, Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2024
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Company leaders nominally accepted the resolute reformulation, but still accepted their nation’s long-standing conventions.Michael Useem, Fortune Asia, 24 Oct. 2024
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Meanwhile, in the work of the list’s four Arizona firms, the state’s sublime tradition of Desert Modernism, solidified most notably throughout Phoenix in the 1950s in the single-family work of Alfred Beadle, continues statewide with resolute spiritedness.Richard Olsen, Forbes, 30 Oct. 2024
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Back home on Wall Street, meanwhile, Lutnick seems intent on reviving the moribund SPAC market.Dan Primack, Axios, 4 Nov. 2024
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President of baseball operations Craig Breslow seems intent on upgrading his starting rotation, based on recent comments to The Athletic.Marco Rubio, Newsweek, 1 Nov. 2024
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“Bound.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bound. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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