unbound
adjective
un·bound
ˌən-ˈbau̇nd 
: not bound: such as
a(1)
: not fastened
(2)
: not confined
b
: not having the leaves fastened together
an unbound book
c
: not bound together with other issues
unbound periodicals
d
: not held in chemical or physical combination
Examples of unbound in a Sentence
He dresses however he likes and feels unbound by convention.
a test to determine the amount of unbound iron in the blood
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Jesse Newell, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2025
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Last year, Yang began to use analog simulations to tackle how the strong force might have behaved during some of the universe’s very earliest moments, when the quarks and gluons that later became bound up in hadrons may have existed as an unbound soup, called quark-gluon plasma.
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Jesse Newell, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2025
Ideas flow when the body is occupied but the mind is unbound.
—Karen Palmer
september 19, Literary Hub, 19 Sep. 2025
Last year, Yang began to use analog simulations to tackle how the strong force might have behaved during some of the universe’s very earliest moments, when the quarks and gluons that later became bound up in hadrons may have existed as an unbound soup, called quark-gluon plasma.
—Shalma Wegsman, Quanta Magazine, 5 Sep. 2025
These objects, unlike the planets of the solar system, were also unbound to a star and therefore free-floating in the universe.
—Robert Lea, Space.com, 30 July 2025
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“Unbound.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/unbound. Accessed 10 Oct. 2025.
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unbound
adjective
un·bound
ˌən-ˈbau̇nd
1
a
: not fastened or tied up
unbound hair
b
: not kept within bounds
unbound spirit
2
: not having a binding
an unbound book
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