tied up
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Tied up with that image is a frequent — and off-base — assumption about what the average Angeleno does for a living.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 20, 2021
Tied up in that is the respectability politics that were really prevalent in the Defender at that time.
From Slate • May 16, 2021
Tied up … again: Washington’s second lead of the game didn’t last three minutes.
From Washington Post • Jun. 7, 2018
Tied up in this infamous incident and its aftermath was a question: to whom does public space really belong?
From Economist • May 9, 2018
Tied up along its shores was every conceivable kind of watercraft— Chinese junks, tugboats, rickety houseboats, old schooners, and barges heaped with jumbles of industrial cargo.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
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