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• v  tie with a tether
• s  confined or restricted with or as if with a rope or chain

• Lake and other activists contend that fear of litigation has led to more women in labor being tethered to monitors and forced under the knife.
• If you spend a lot of time in hotel rooms tethered to a 3" blue Ethernet leash or racking up $9.
• Your eyes do not deceive you: that sleek slab levitating in midair is in fact a bed, and it is floating unsupported--though lightly tethered at its four corners--16 in.

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News & Articles

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• Ultrabook: Designed for Optimal Experience
  The way we use and interact with technology has changed dramatically in recent years. The days of working 9-to-5 tethered to a desktop PC in an office are virtually extinct. Now, we live in an increasingly wireless, mobile, connected world, where people get things done virtually anywhere, and everywhere. Smartphones and tablets have been a significant catalyst for the mobile revolution, but they ...
  June 12, 2013 - PC World
• Shook Foil signs to Boom Done! Records, prepares debut LP
  Boom Done! Records , the upstart indie label founded by members of Wowser Bowser , just added Shook Foil to its humble yet quickly growing roster, and announced the release of The Tethered Life , the band's debut full-length.… [ Read more ] [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
  June 12, 2013 - Creative Loafing Atlanta
• Calling All Drones
  A picture taken on June 21, 2011 at the Bourget airport on the second day of the International Paris Air Show, shows drones 'Etop' (foreground), a pure electrical power airborne tethered observation platform, and 'Heron' for strategic and tactical missions, on the Israel stand.
  June 11, 2013 - Forbes

Quotes

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• Linda Greenstein in PolitickerNJ (blog)
  We are simply trying to make this process easier for senior and disabled residents,said Greenstein. "They should not be tethered to one spot for fear of losing needed property tax relief."
• Colin Powell in RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
  Powell wrote: "Russia's democratic system seems not yet to have found the essential balance among the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of government. Political power is not yet fully tethered to law. Key aspects of civil society -- free...
• Jeff Sessions in Los Angeles Times
  Sessions, who voted against Sotomayor, said: "This process reflected a broad public consensus that judges should be impartial, restrained, and faithfully tethered to the law and the Constitution. It will now be harder to nominate activist judges."