TETHERED Synonyms: 50 Similar and Opposite Words

tethered

verb

past tense of tether

as in tied

to attach (someone or something) to something else by or as if by means of a line or cord I tethered the boat to the dock before coming ashore.

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Recent Examples of tethered Once again, Menon will be stationed in Canada's 56-foot-long Canadarm2 robotic arm, while Adenot will be tethered to the space station. — Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 25 Aug. 2026 The financing packages will keep a huge amount of capital tethered to Nvidia, and away from fledgling or established competitors. — Rohan Goswami, semafor.com, 10 Aug. 2026 Scientists tethered a fly (Drosophila) in place over a small ball floating on a cushion of air in complete darkness. — Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 1 Aug. 2026 Weakened by kidney failure, Karam is unable to work and is tethered 12 hours a day to the machine that cleans the toxins from his blood. — Laura Tillman, Hartford Courant, 1 Aug. 2026 Samsung's glasses are equipped with Qualcomm's Snapdragon AR1 Gen1 chip and must be tethered to a smartphone. — Arjun Kharpal, CNBC, 22 July 2026 Once Emily commits to stepping away from what tethered her to her past, a new freedom, and maybe new fears, emerge. — Carlos Aguilar, Variety, 20 July 2026 Their fortunes will likely still be tethered to each other down the stretch. — Grant Brisbee, New York Times, 7 July 2026 But they also are tethered together in a vital and distinct way, coalescing here as nowhere else even while reflecting something deeper and broader that this particular World Cup has come to mean. — Vahe Gregorian july 4, Kansas City Star, 4 July 2026

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Wisconsin is experiencing its largest outbreak in decades, while Georgia health officials are working to contain a cluster tied to a metro Atlanta day care center.

— Anthony Thompson, USA Today, 30 Aug. 2026
But there is something else tied to his Jewish heritage that keeps things in perspective — the struggles his grandmother went through escaping liquidation at the hand of the Nazis in her Polish hometown.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2026

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