Examples
“The new index, which is known as the "chained consumer price index" CCPI, typically shows a rate of inflation 0.3 percentage points less than the CPI currently used to adjust benefits.”
The Huffington Post: Dean Baker: Cutting Social Security by Stealth
“I find the term "workaholic" to be distasteful, because it reminds me of the harried-looking lawyers I recall chained to their desks through nights and weekends during my lawyer days years ago.”
The Huffington Post: Rachel Sklar: Am I A Workaholic? Yes, But I Prefer 'Workahol-ish'
“Not that I ever shall wish, but to know that I am not chained, that is the wonderful thing.”
“In the allegory of the cave (Republic, VII, 514 d) a race of men are described as chained in a fixed position in a cavern, able to look only at the wall in front of them.”
“There was a huge sideboard, for which Kate had brought down from Boston Miss Brandon's own silver which had stood there for so many years, and looked so much more at home and in place than any other possibly could have looked, and Kate also found in the closet the three great decanters with silver labels chained round their necks, which had always been the companions of the tea-service in her aunt's lifetime.”
“[333] author of the Chronicon Paschale supposes, that Andromeda, whom the poets describe as chained to a rock, and exposed to a sea-monster, was in reality confined in a temple of Neptune, a Petra of another sort.”
A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume II. (of VI.)
“An agunah is a woman "chained" to a husband who is either unwilling or unable to grant her a Jewish divorce.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘chained’.
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Found My Bearings
A list of bear words, mostly real tending fair to fanciful after midday.
grizzly, honey, gummi, teddy, ursidae, polar, caniform, giant panda, dwarf panda, spectacled, short-faced, kodiak and 68 more...
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Public List: Free Association
Read the top word on the list and add a word that you associate with it. The association may be semantic, etymological, structural, literary, personal, etc.
Rules:
1. In t...mounch, mensch, trench, war, harmony, guitar, cigar, bubblegum, baseball cards, shortstop, bear, chained and 72 more...
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Charles Michael Kittridge Thompson IV
Words from the songs of Frank Black, a.k.a. Black Francis
zugzwang, valhalla, montalvo, ishist, tritons, mosh, siam, llano del rio, protohuman, tumbleweeds, ludwigshafen, ballyhoos and 349 more...
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Theme Prompts
There's a fiction meme (mostly on Livejournal) where writers use words as a prompt for a short story snippet. I've been collecting the words that show up on these lists as prompts for creative writ...
white, black, gray, red, orange, yellow, green, indigo, violet, queen, king, prince and 407 more...
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song starters (twisted song starters)
Words/phrases inextricably tied to the songs they're in, sparking off earworms here there & everywhere (there's one, to start with). Only my own personal examples.
Do guess the more p...as i recall, here there and ev..., firestarter, final countdown, every now and then, turn around, pipe wrench, goodness gracious, insane, fuck you, scat, 21 seconds and 79 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for chained.
chained_bear Or bear. *cursing*
P.S. jennarenn--"Let's Talk About Old Stuff industry"?! HA HA HA HA!!! Feb 6, 2008
reesetee History waits for no man. Or woman. Feb 5, 2008
jennarenn Oh, you would have the inside scoop. Poor c_b. (Really? In January???) Feb 5, 2008
reesetee C_b, last I heard, was working her butt off. :-( Feb 4, 2008
jennarenn January is a slow time in the Let's Talk About Old Stuff industry. I'm betting that c_b is on vacation. Feb 4, 2008
mollusque Chained_bear is still missing! Is she chained to her desk? How can we bear it? (See Free Associations). Feb 4, 2008