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bond
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bond as in:  a close bond

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They've had a close bond since childhood.
bond = connection
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    We bonded when we roommates our first year at college.
    bonded = became close
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    We use a special epoxy that creates a strong bond.
    bond = connection (where things are glued together)
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    Occasionally he'd make a halfhearted attempt to bond with the kid, but the two had little in common.  (source)
    bond = connect (emotionally)
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    Now he understood about animals; and in the moment that the horse turned from the stream and nudged Jonas's shoulder affectionately with its head, he perceived the bonds between animal and human.  (source)
    bonds = connections
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    So much for the old movies and the mother-daughter bonding.  (source)
    bonding = forming a close connection
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    That fall he developed a lasting bond with both the town and Wayne Westerberg.  (source)
    bond = connection
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    They were both farm girls and had bonded early on.  (source)
    bonded = connected (as friends)
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    No one will discuss these things again, or even acknowledge having ever discussed them at all, but because of it, invisible bonds have been forged.  (source)
    bonds = connections
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    Bonding over shared interests in sports and music, the two became good friends.  (source)
    Bonding = forming a close connection
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    It's like they have a stronger bond or something.  (source)
    bond = emotional connection
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    She was bonded to her planet and its life in a way few people are.  (source)
    bonded = connected
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    The knife I used on him, and on my bonds, will be nearby on the floor where I dropped it, dazed, and walked barefoot, carrying nothing out of the house but his keys—to the car, to the gate—and climbed, still slick with his blood, into his vintage Jaguar and returned like some long-lost faithful pet, straight back home to my husband.  (source)
    bonds = ropes
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    I was pretty sure this would be the moment of bonding.†  (source)
    bonding = connecting
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bond as in:  the bond market

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US Bonds are considered vary safe, but they will go down in value when interest rates rise.
bonds = certificates issued by the government that promise to repay a loan with interest
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    My sister's fund contains mostly stocks, but she plans to add bonds as she gets older.
    bonds = a loan to a government or corporation that pays interest
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    And after the news of Louie's death broke, the film director Cecil B. DeMille showed up to do a radio interview with the family for the Sixth War Bond Drive.  (source)
    Bond = certificates for which a government pays a specific interest rate for a cash loan for a specific period of time
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    Her objective was not lost on the attorney; she so complicated the issuing of the bonds that tracing them would be beyond the facilities of most banks or brokers.  (source)
    bonds = loan certificates that entitle the certificate owner to receive future payments for a loan
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    But not checks. Bonds.  (source)
    Bonds = loan certificates that entitle the certificate owner to receive future payments for a loan
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    A bond fund at UBS in Zurich was valued at just over $3 million.  (source)
    bond = a certificate issued by a government or corporation that promises to repay a loan with interest
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    Bearer bonds of various denominations.  (source)
    bonds = loan certificates that entitle the certificate owner to receive future payments for a loan
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    Everybody I knew was in the bond business, so I supposed it could support one more single man.  (source)
    bond = (buying and selling) certificates for which a government or corporation pays a specific interest rate for a cash loan for a specific period of time
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    She made her points succinctly, altering the cashiers checks to bearer bonds, payable in dollars, in denominations ranging from a maximum of twenty thousand dollars to a minimum of five.  (source)
    bonds = loan certificates that entitle the certificate owner to receive future payments for a loan
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    Instead of being the warm centre of the world, the Middle West now seemed like the ragged edge of the universe — so I decided to go East and learn the bond business.  (source)
    bond = (buying and selling) certificates for which a government or corporation pays a specific interest rate for a cash loan for a specific period of time
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    Pardon me, but Monsieur Bourne insists that Monsieur d'Amacourt also include two hundred thousand francs in cash, one hundred thousand to be included with the bonds and one hundred to be held by Monsieur d'Amacourt.  (source)
    bonds = loan certificates that entitle the certificate owner to receive future payments for a loan
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    I knew the other clerks and young bond-salesmen by their first names, and lunched with them in dark, crowded restaurants on little pig sausages and mashed potatoes and coffee.  (source)
    bond = certificates for which a government or corporation pays a specific interest rate for a cash loan for a specific period of time
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    I was sure that they were selling something: bonds or insurance or automobiles.  (source)
    bonds = loan certificates that entitle the certificate owner to receive future payments for a loan
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    I'm a bond man.  (source)
    bond = in the business of buying and selling certificates for which a government or corporation pays a specific interest rate for a cash loan for a specific period of time
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bond as in:  released on a $10,000 bond

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She was released after paying a $10,000 bond.
bond = refundable money paid to a court for release from jail prior to trial
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    Mom was released from jail on bond and prosecuted for a domestic violence misdemeanor.  (source)
    bond = money paid to a court for release from jail prior to trial
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    Williams had been taken into custody, charged with murder, and held on $25,000 bond.  (source)
    bond = refundable money paid to a court for release from jail prior to trial
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    Out on bond, awaiting trial.  (source)
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    A bond will be set, but it'll probably be too high.  (source)
    bond = an amount of refundable money paid to a court for release from jail prior to trial
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    He had been released on a bond furnished by Gail Wynand, and he awaited trial.  (source)
    bond = refundable money paid to a court for release from jail prior to trial
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    They fingerprinted him, booked him for murder, and set bond at $25,000.  (source)
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    I'd been processed and released—the depersonalized in-and-outing of jail, the bond hearing, the fingerprints and photos, the rotating and the shuffling and the handling; it didn't make me feel like an animal, it made me feel like a product, something created on an assembly line.  (source)
    bond = regarding refundable money paid to a court for release from jail prior to trial
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    Jake frowned and said, "A bond for what?"  (source)
    bond = an amount of refundable money paid to a court for release from jail prior to trial
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    The judge raised his bond to $100,000 and let him go.  (source)
    bond = refundable money paid to a court for release from jail prior to trial
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    "He won't get out on bond, will he, Jake?" asked Bill West.  (source)
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    Williams had paid the $600 bond to get him out of jail that time too.  (source)
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    Right now they can't get a bond set.  (source)
    bond = amount of refundable money paid to a court for release from jail prior to trial
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    Once we book you and relieve you of two hundred dollars for bond, why, you can be on your way.  (source)
    bond = refundable money paid to a court for release from jail prior to trial
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bonded as in:  all our employees are bonded

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I can't start work until I'm bonded.
bonded = insured to cover any loss resulting from dishonesty
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    Everyone who works here is bonded.
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    A bonded courier's bad enough, but he's necessary; bank insurance requires him.  (source)
    bonded = insured
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    Our similar family situations had bonded us when we met.†  (source)
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    Justin and I bonded from the first time I met him.†  (source)
    bonded = insured
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    If ever you met an unbonded dragon, you would not say so.†  (source)
    unbonded = not insured
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unbonded means not and reverses the meaning of bonded. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    Against all odds, she nurtured a precious family bonded by an intense love.†  (source)
    bonded = insured
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    Twenty-six were set to be joined with Riders; the rest were unbonded.†  (source)
    unbonded = not insured
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    Since they both loved surfing, they immediately bonded.†  (source)
    bonded = insured
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    Our secrets have made us close, bonded us together.†  (source)
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    Ali said that secrets were what bonded their fiveway best-friendship together for eternity.†  (source)
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    He'd found four quarts of bonded whiskey still in the paper bags in which they'd been purchased and he drank a little of it in a glass with water.†  (source)
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    Instead it had been indiscriminately promiscuous, had not pair-bonded, and had spent most of its waking life, when it wasn't eating, engaged in copulation.†  (source)
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    "Epoxy-glued" was his short-hand for shoddy work, and cheap things generally; he'd shown me a number of original pieces where the joints had held undisturbed for two hundred years or more, whereas the problem with a lot of modern work was that it held too tight, bonded too hard with the wood and cracked it and didn't let it breathe.†  (source)
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rare meaning

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    The visit was on Saturday, 8 December, and the whole thing was like something out of a James Bond movie.  (source)
    Bond = fictitious spy in movies
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    Nobody is more devoted to Farshid's decision-making prowess than my parents, and Farshid, like James Bond, has never turned down an assignment.  (source)
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    Knowing that Mr. Radley's word was his bond, the judge was glad to do so.  (source)
    bond = trustworthy binding agreement
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    He thought it wonderfully ironic that hundreds of years later when Ian Fleming created James Bond, he gave Bond the same code name.  (source)
    Bond = fictitious spy in movies
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    She said she was surrounded by Tarzans and Robin Hoods and James Bonds.  (source)
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    He'd played all kinds of roles —a Latino teacher in a tough L.A. school, a dashing Israeli spy in an action-adventure blockbuster, even a Syrian terrorist in a James Bond movie.  (source)
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    In later years, I sometimes wondered exactly what made Jem do it, what made him break the bonds of "You just be a gentleman, son," and the phase of self-conscious rectitude he had recently entered.  (source)
    bonds = constraints
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    Starring Mark Watney as …. probably Q. I'm no James Bond.  (source)
    Bond = fictitious spy in movies
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    None of the James Bonds took off their shirts enough for us to decide who had the best chest, but I think probably Timothy Dalton.  (source)
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    It was like watching some corny old spy DVD, James Bond or something.  (source)
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    "Write your locker number down," the guy at the register said, "and your combination too, and keep it in a safe place," but I'd already memorized both —I'd seen enough James Bond movies that I knew the drill —and the minute I was outside tossed the paper in the trash.  (source)
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    Pierce Brosnan, best James Bond ever  (source)
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    "That's the James Bond part," Vicky says, and they all giggle.  (source)
    Bond = a last name
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