Example Sentences

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Under Lukashenko, Belarus became almost umbilically tied to neighboring Russia, agreeing to form a still-in-progress “union state.”

From Seattle Times • Jun. 25, 2023

The first thing to fully conceive was the sisters: their individuality and their almost umbilically tied relationship.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 21, 2023

It’s not just English TV and film actors who connect umbilically to this country’s theater, but offscreen talent, too.

From New York Times • Mar. 2, 2021

But they are umbilically connected by a mesh of cross-guarantees, factoring arrangements and other transactions.

From Economist • Jan. 25, 2018

No other Olympic Games has been so umbilically linked with one man.

From The Guardian • Aug. 13, 2012