And retail spaces faced lower demand as homebound consumers relied more upon e-commerce for their daily needs, prompting new business creativity in responses.—Caleb Richter, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023 Ideal for the coffee shop regular, homebound worker, or library enthusiast.—Hyphensocial Contributors, Rolling Stone, 14 Feb. 2024 Williamson founded Project Angel Food, which began as a program to deliver meals to homebound people with AIDS and later expanded to people battling any critical illness.—Brittany Shepherd, ABC News, 7 Feb. 2024 Samuel feels he is saddled with too many homebound responsibilities, forced to sacrifice for Sandra's writing career.—Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 4 Sep. 2023 Using cars instead of dispensary counters, small marijuana startups have proliferated in recent years, serving a diverse customer base that includes homebound medical patients as well as people in communities where dispensaries are banned or few in number.—Peter Hecht, Sacramento Bee, 21 Feb. 2024 During the pandemic, many homebound workers adopted pets.—Matt Keenan, Kansas City Star, 30 Jan. 2024 On Earth, homebound researchers have used simulated Martian soil, as Mr. Mendoza did, to learn about crop growth on that otherworldly world.—Sarah Scoles, New York Times, 27 Nov. 2023 Onstage, Reich was confronted not by the usual crowd primed with cocktails but by an enormous flat-screen monitor, which displayed thirty-odd homebound viewers in a checkerboard of Zoom squares.—Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 8 Dec. 2023
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