beholden to
idiom
formal
: owing a favor or gift to (someone) : having obligations to (someone)
politicians who are beholden to special interest groups
She works for herself, and so is beholden to no one.
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Likewise, there is an increasing and accelerating movement to develop sovereign and open LLMs that are not beholden to the interests of large technology companies or geopolitical powers.
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Ron Schmelzer, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
In a phone with the Statesman, Parsons noted that most of the surrounding infrastructure has already been built, and the land is beholden to both city code and previous approvals from the 2018 subdivision agreement.
—Rose Evans
september 12, Idaho Statesman, 12 Sep. 2025
By contrast, the Brazilian right is fragmented (at least four parties claim a conservative identity in the Brazilian Congress) and not particularly beholden to Bolsonaro.
—Omar G. Encarnación, Time, 12 Sep. 2025
Jay Richards, director of the DeVos Center for Human Flourishing at the Heritage Foundation, said Trump was too beholden to the administrative state in his first term.
—Nathaniel Weixel, The Hill, 6 Sep. 2025
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Ron Schmelzer, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
In a phone with the Statesman, Parsons noted that most of the surrounding infrastructure has already been built, and the land is beholden to both city code and previous approvals from the 2018 subdivision agreement.
—Rose Evans
september 12, Idaho Statesman, 12 Sep. 2025
By contrast, the Brazilian right is fragmented (at least four parties claim a conservative identity in the Brazilian Congress) and not particularly beholden to Bolsonaro.
—Omar G. Encarnación, Time, 12 Sep. 2025
Jay Richards, director of the DeVos Center for Human Flourishing at the Heritage Foundation, said Trump was too beholden to the administrative state in his first term.
—Nathaniel Weixel, The Hill, 6 Sep. 2025
See All Example Sentences for beholden to
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“Beholden to.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/beholden%20to. Accessed 20 Sep. 2025.
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