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For now, Hong has chained his plane in San Gabriel Valley Airport and said he’s uncomfortable flying it until he can thoroughly inspect it.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 8, 2025

Yet he has chained himself to the table, and he appears ready to wager everything to intimidate his adversaries and make them fold.

From Washington Post • Sep. 29, 2022

About a week later I see a news report: a celebrity has chained himself to one of the fences out there and it’s Martin Sheen.

From The Guardian • Feb. 27, 2018

He has chained himself to excavators; he has faced down bulldozers.

From New York Times • Sep. 27, 2012

"Oh," said he, peevishly, "you call yourself my friend; and you are cheerful, Douglas, while your king is a poor prisoner whom the gout has chained with brazen bands to this chair."

From Henry VIII and His Court by Pierce, Henry Niles