adhesive binding

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noun

bookbinding a style of binding used mainly for paperback books, where the backs of the gathered sections are trimmed and inserted into a cover along with adhesive to hold the pages and cover togetherAlso called: perfect binding

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Words nearby adhesive binding

adhesion, adhesiotomy, adhesive, adhesive absorbent dressing, adhesive bandage, adhesive binding, adhesive capsulitis, adhesive pericarditis, adhesive peritonitis, adhesive plaster, adhesive pleurisy

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How to use adhesive binding in a sentence

Binding the resolution of my case to progress in the nuclear negotiations is profoundly unjust.
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That ruling is binding law in the United States, no matter what the former vice president says.
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It was done after we had received a binding legal opinion from Justice and approval from the White House to proceed.
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While a good start, some security experts say the guidelines should be binding.
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But the amendment was non-binding -- and thus largely symbolic.
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Again, common law decisions are not binding on the courts that make them like statutes or legislative commands.
Putnam's Handy Law Book for the Layman|Albert Sidney Bolles
Whatever reason the transaction affords for binding the former, it supplies for holding the latter bound.
The Ordinance of Covenanting|John Cunningham
A benefit conferred, in the honest, though mistaken, belief that such a promise is binding ought in justice to be restored.
Putnam's Handy Law Book for the Layman|Albert Sidney Bolles
But then she had sworn, and to some people, and Georgie was one of these, an oath remains ever binding.
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Even although he had tacitly consented to Romanoff's proposal he saw no necessity for binding himself.
The Everlasting Arms|Joseph Hocking