unmoored; unmooring; unmoors
: to loosen from or as if from moorings
… something unmoored him from the discipline and dogma of his party.—
Jonathan Chait
Jonathan Chait
: to cast off moorings
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The film should be highly disturbing, but the dramatic tension never gels, despite composer Christopher Stacey’s efforts to unmoor us by injecting discordant strings beneath mundane scenes.
—Peter Debruge, Variety, 18 Feb. 2023
To accommodate Campos’s cavalry, P.S.G. has had to unmoor Leandro Paredes, Ander Herrera, Georginio Wijnaldum, Idrissa Gueye, Julian Draxler, Ángel Di Maria and Xavi Simons this summer, too.
—Rory Smith, New York Times, 2 Sep. 2022
By Big Tech standards, Netflix has remained a strongly independent company over its 25-year run, spurning big acquisitions and splashy deals that could unmoor its roots.
—Jacob Carpenter, Fortune, 14 July 2022
The German Greens, now part of the country’s ruling coalition, lashed out at previous governments for not working faster to unmoor Germany’s economy from Russian fossil fuels.
—Washington Post, 21 Apr. 2022
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Peter Debruge, Variety, 18 Feb. 2023
To accommodate Campos’s cavalry, P.S.G. has had to unmoor Leandro Paredes, Ander Herrera, Georginio Wijnaldum, Idrissa Gueye, Julian Draxler, Ángel Di Maria and Xavi Simons this summer, too.
—Rory Smith, New York Times, 2 Sep. 2022
By Big Tech standards, Netflix has remained a strongly independent company over its 25-year run, spurning big acquisitions and splashy deals that could unmoor its roots.
—Jacob Carpenter, Fortune, 14 July 2022
The German Greens, now part of the country’s ruling coalition, lashed out at previous governments for not working faster to unmoor Germany’s economy from Russian fossil fuels.
—Washington Post, 21 Apr. 2022
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“Unmoor.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/unmoor. Accessed 6 Nov. 2025.
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