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Recent Examples of beholden
Apologizing for playing a part in your feeling so beholden.
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Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 24 Jan. 2024
My natural dishwater hue is now beholden as a covetable blonde shade on the internet.
—Shelby Wax, Allure, 29 Feb. 2024
The appointment was a major concession for McCarthy, but, from his perspective, turning an insurgent into a beholden ally was a matter of survival.
—Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2023
While medications are prescribed by an elite medical authority figure, supplements are peddled by entrepreneurs beholden only to the market.
—WIRED, 31 July 2023
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Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 24 Jan. 2024
My natural dishwater hue is now beholden as a covetable blonde shade on the internet.
—Shelby Wax, Allure, 29 Feb. 2024
The appointment was a major concession for McCarthy, but, from his perspective, turning an insurgent into a beholden ally was a matter of survival.
—Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2023
While medications are prescribed by an elite medical authority figure, supplements are peddled by entrepreneurs beholden only to the market.
—WIRED, 31 July 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for beholden
indebted
Adjective
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Owens wrote that his client didn’t seek out a criminal lifestyle but became indebted to a criminal organization that paid his ransom after he was kidnapped and tortured.—
City News Service,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
13 June 2025
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The Brokenwood Mysteries is an interesting concoction: a pleasing throwback to cop dramas and murder mysteries of the 1970s that feels particularly indebted to American influences, but which often steps out into new terrain.—
Declan Gallagher,
EW.com,
1 June 2025
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“Beholden.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/beholden. Accessed 19 Jun. 2025.
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