Jordyn Woods

It's not just about fashion and confidence in what you look like. It's confidence in anything you do. It's knowing you're the best, knowing you're bound to be great, killing it in every aspect of life.

American Model

Ralph Fiennes

There are those moments when you shake someone's hand, have a conversation with someone, and suddenly your all bound together because you share your humanity in one simple moment.

British Actor

Konnie Huq

Food lovers tend to make life difficult for themselves on their travels. It's like travelling first class, if your expectations are so high, you're bound to be disappointed.

British Celebrity

Bertrand Russell

If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.

British Philosopher

Ruth B

I think 'Lost Boy' is just really relatable. You can be any age from any place in life, and you're bound to feel lonely at some point.

Canadian Musician

Angela Merkel

We feel bound to the Christian image of humanity - that is what defines us. Those who do not accept this are in the wrong place here.

German Statesman

Goldie Hawn

If you need to be bound to someone, then it's important to be married. If you are independent, then it's important to not be married.

American Actress

Joseph Brodsky

After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

American Poet

Desmond Tutu

My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.

South African Leader

Morrissey

English Musician

Use 'bound' when something is very likely to happen, almost as if it's guaranteed.

Inevitable outcome

'Bound to' adds emphasis to your expectation that something will happen.

Emphasizes certainty

Use 'bound' as a verb to describe a quick, energetic jump.

Sudden movement

When using 'bound' to describe movement, it conveys a sense of liveliness or excitement.

Expresses liveliness

As a verb, 'bound' can mean to restrict or limit something within certain conditions.

Create restrictions

'Bound' can also physically tie or restrict movements.

Physical restraints

As a noun, 'bound' refers to the furthest edge or limit of an area.

Defines edges

'Bounds' can also mean limits in a figurative sense, like accepted behavior.

Symbolic limits

When used as a noun, a 'bound' suggests an athletic or agile movement.

Athletic imagery

Add '-bound' to a destination to indicate the direction something is going.

Travel direction

'Bound by' signifies a required adherence to rules or promises.

Mandatory rules

 Obsolete words gain new life by adopting new meanings. Villain originally meant a peasant farmer, but in a twist of aristocratic snobbery came to mean someone not bound by the knightly code of chivalry and, therefore, a bad person. A geek went from being a carnival performer

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 Now Emma's story made that sound easy, but that's what I love about working with twentysomethings. They are so easy to help. Twentysomethings are like airplanes just leaving LAX, bound for somewhere west. Right after takeoff, a slight change in course

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 tough problems within bounded constraints science is about using a rigorous an empirical process to understand the laws that govern our universe and when they work together they can address some of the most pressing challenges of our time thank

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 As he was about to be imprisoned, the king asked Thanatos to show him how the chains worked – and quickly bound him instead, before escaping back among the living. With Thanatos trapped, no one could die, and the world was thrown into chaos.

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 It also covers the forces that govern how particles move, interact, and bind together to give shape to the world around us. So how does it work? Zooming in on the fragments of the cup, we see molecules, made of atoms bound up together.

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 A rounded form solved that issue, although new problems arose, like having the book close in on itself. But flexibility was more important, especially for the on-the-go reader. As the book evolves and we replace bound texts

The evolution of the...

 This process doesn't happen with just any objects. Otherwise you'd be getting zapped all the time. Conductors like metals and salt water tend to have loosely bound outer electrons, which can easily flow between molecules.

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 be respectful we were always on the edge of the colonies it's almost impossible to get inside them and i don't think you really want because the spaces between the nests are so small you're bound to get pecked and you're

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 Up here on land, they're impossibly ungainly and out of place. But for these female elephant seals there's still one part of their life where they're totally bound to the land. They come here to give birth.

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 evaporates but with a hundred thousand bats in the same grove of trees things are bound to heat up fights often break out over which branch belongs to whom they defend their turf but they rarely

Bound

Sure to do or experience something.

To move by leaping.

To confine or limit.

Often appears as...

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The external limit of a surface or area.

Often appears as...

A big jump or hop.

Heading toward a specific direction.

Often appears as...

Legally or morally required.

Often appears as...

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Inevitable outcome

Emphasizes certainty

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