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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If nothing else, Jeremy Clarkson has shown how farmers’ livelihoods are beholden to the vicissitudes of the weather gods.
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Jake Kanter, Deadline, 7 June 2025
Josh here — There will always be an agriculture cycle and companies in the agriculture space will always be, to some extent, beholden to it.
—Josh Brown,sean Russo, CNBC, 5 June 2025
Lebanon has always been beholden to foreign military suppliers: first to Russia, whose Syrian allies dominated Beirut after the end of the Lebanese Civil War, and then, after the Syrians withdrew in 2005, to the United States.
—Rania Abouzeid, New Yorker, 2 June 2025
More often than not, the sort of activist who makes a career of political agitation — even from within the confines of an ostensibly apolitical institution — is beholden to a constellation of misconceptions and rationalizations that justify even the most self-destructive endeavors.
—Noah Rothman, National Review, 29 May 2025
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Jake Kanter, Deadline, 7 June 2025
Josh here — There will always be an agriculture cycle and companies in the agriculture space will always be, to some extent, beholden to it.
—Josh Brown,sean Russo, CNBC, 5 June 2025
Lebanon has always been beholden to foreign military suppliers: first to Russia, whose Syrian allies dominated Beirut after the end of the Lebanese Civil War, and then, after the Syrians withdrew in 2005, to the United States.
—Rania Abouzeid, New Yorker, 2 June 2025
More often than not, the sort of activist who makes a career of political agitation — even from within the confines of an ostensibly apolitical institution — is beholden to a constellation of misconceptions and rationalizations that justify even the most self-destructive endeavors.
—Noah Rothman, National Review, 29 May 2025
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“Beholden to.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/beholden%20to. Accessed 13 Jun. 2025.
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