BONDS Synonyms: 109 Similar and Opposite Words

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noun

Definition of bonds

plural of bond

as in handcuffs

something that physically prevents free movement before they could release the captive, they had to undo a number of bonds

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as in links

a uniting or binding force or influence the bond of love between them was so strong that even death could not break it

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as in contracts

a formal agreement to fulfill an obligation signed a bond to repay the money

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as in glues

a substance used to stick things together what type of bond works best on ceramics?

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verb

present tense third-person singular of bond

as in communes

to form a close personal relationship a man attempting to bond with his new and mistrustful stepson

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Recent Examples of bonds

Noun

Falling expectations for an interest rate increase at the Federal Reserve’s next meeting later this month may be giving CoreWeave bonds some room to breathe. — Tobias Burns, CNBC, 16 Oct. 2026 That’s a departure from conventional state personal tax, which is levied on income such as wages and the proceeds from sales of stocks, bonds and other such financial assets. — Business Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2026 Right now, investors have put a significant premium on buying 10-year Treasuries compared to short-term bonds that roll over multiple times throughout the next decade. — David Goldman, CNN Money, 16 Oct. 2026 Yields on a key cloud provider’s bonds rose further, one of a number of signs of investors souring on AI infrastructure investment. — Prashant Rao, semafor.com, 16 Oct. 2026 The city typically requests these bonds every two years but adjusts the prices. — Nick Sullivan, Charlotte Observer, 16 Oct. 2026 The costume designer worked with filmmaker Georgia Oakley to create a visual language for the latest adaptation of Jane Austen’s first novel, emphasizing familial bonds and the financial divide between its characters. — Julia Teti, Footwear News, 16 Oct. 2026 As the fight wears on, money worries and the scrutiny of people around them chip away at the family’s income and its bonds. — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 11 Oct. 2026 That would drive up yields on French bonds, making borrowing to fund that spending even more expensive—and thus worsen the problem that the rioters are complaining about. — Jason Ma, Fortune, 10 Oct. 2026

Verb

The young man who bonds with the ghost of his a–hole father while trapped in a gooey cushion of whale intestines stays with the ghost of his a–hole father. — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 14 Oct. 2026 Mia, the kindly next-door neighbor, and her daughter, Noora (Henrikke Lund-Olsen), who bonds with Elia at school. — Justin Chang, New Yorker, 8 Oct. 2026 Frozen soil that has held buildings, roads and pipelines for decades can start to sink as temperatures rise and the ice that bonds soil particles weakens. — Ming Xiao, The Conversation, 29 Sep. 2026 Realize that the cement is the glue that bonds the sand and stones in your mix together. — Tim Carter, Hartford Courant, 26 Sep. 2026 Higher rates tend to slow economic activity by making borrowing more expensive and bonds more competitive with stocks for investment dollars. — Alexa Lomonaco, CNBC, 26 Sep. 2026 The mop-haired actor plays Joey, a spunky boy onboard who bonds with Maddie over having absent parents in the military. — Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 18 Aug. 2026 Nigel Starck, too, argues that obituaries provide a glue that bonds society not in grief but in an aspirational reevaluation of our own lives. — Sam Roberts, Longreads, 11 Aug. 2026 Gaby bonds with a new, albeit reluctant, patient, Maya (Sherry Cola), only to be devastated when Maya takes her own life. — Maureen Lee Lenker, Los Angeles Times, 10 Aug. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for bonds

Noun

Officers arrived and found Gonzalez in handcuffs with a gunshot wound to his midsection, the department said in a statement last week.

— Iris Kwok, Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2026
On Tuesday, Davis appeared in court shackled in handcuffs and wearing a navy blue prison uniform.

— Alicia Victoria Lozano, NBC news, 13 Oct. 2026

Definition of handcuffs

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Maintaining command-and-control links matters when troops rely on aerial sensors to gather information beyond their immediate positions.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 16 Oct. 2026
China still accounts for about 95% of North Korea’s total official trade, and the South Korean government has reported 17 rail and vehicle links connecting China and North Korea, according to the AP.

— Gage Goulding, CNN Money, 15 Oct. 2026

Definition of links

Noun

Basis trades are an arbitrage bet in which hedge funds are positioned long in cash Treasurys while shorting their corresponding futures contracts, with the aim of profiting from the price gap.

— Hugh Leask, CNBC, 18 Oct. 2026
Again, two-way contracts can be swapped out at any time, with such salaries not counting against the salary cap.

— Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 18 Oct. 2026

Definition of contracts

Verb

Most of the funding gap relates specifically to weapons purchases, Zelensky said, and future financing for Ukraine could come in the form of deals for sharing technology and joint drone production.

— Hanna Arhirova, Los Angeles Times, 25 Sep. 2026
And then Mowbray relates some personal evidence of what has not changed — Middlesbrough’s attachment to football.

— Michael Walker, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2026

Definition of relates

Noun

Albert Ramdin, secretary general of the Organization of American States, also has said that candidates with criminal ties should be barred from running.

— Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 17 Oct. 2026
The daughter of Khaled Al Saif and Azza Al Sudairi, her mother is a scion of the Al Sudairi dynasty, which has ties to the Saudi Arabian royal family.

— Stephanie Bridger-Linning, Vanity Fair, 17 Oct. 2026

Definition of ties

Noun

Good luck enforcing Potemkin guarantees from hyperscalers or arguing that local protests excuse a construction delay that blew a hole in the financing.

— Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 15 Oct. 2026
For Hoffman, the evening’s results were encouraging but not necessarily conclusive, and the extensive use of guarantees should be taken with a grain of salt.

— Daniel Cassady, ARTnews.com, 14 Oct. 2026

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