Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
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Activists have chained themselves to heavy machinery and camped in trees to block logging and other projects.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 30, 2021
Some have chained themselves to equipment or taken other actions to disrupt construction.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 6, 2021
Anti-drilling protesters chain themselves to ship: Two people have chained themselves to a support ship that is part of Royal Dutch Shell’s exploratory oil drilling plans and currently moored in Washington state.
From Washington Post ● May 23, 2015
White South Africans have chained themselves to the statues of colonial-era leaders to protest against them being vandalised or removed.
From BBC ● Apr. 8, 2015
I had a persuasion that I should be supposed mad, and this in itself would for ever have chained my tongue.
From "Frankenstein" by Mary Shelley
