unshackle
verb
un·shack·le
ˌən-ˈsha-kəl 
unshackled; unshackling; unshackles
: to free from shackles
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There have been stingy draws, a high-scoring draw and a couple of Elland Road hidings, but this was Daniel Farke’s Leeds unshackled, intoxicated, for good and bad, by the same icy Tyneside air which made Kevin Keegan’s Newcastle United sides so iconic.
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Beren Cross, New York Times, 8 Jan. 2026
Both their hands were unshackled.
—CBS News, 6 Jan. 2026
This is the moment when the Oscars finally becomes what it was always meant to be: a true celebration of cinema, unshackled from the constraints of broadcast television.
—Clayton Davis, Variety, 17 Dec. 2025
Where Ann Lee sought to dance herself clean from the Church of England (and its oppressive insistence that suffering is the surest path to heaven), Fastvold was and remains similarly determined to unshackle herself from the gospel truths of modern film production.
—David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 1 Dec. 2025
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Beren Cross, New York Times, 8 Jan. 2026
Both their hands were unshackled.
—CBS News, 6 Jan. 2026
This is the moment when the Oscars finally becomes what it was always meant to be: a true celebration of cinema, unshackled from the constraints of broadcast television.
—Clayton Davis, Variety, 17 Dec. 2025
Where Ann Lee sought to dance herself clean from the Church of England (and its oppressive insistence that suffering is the surest path to heaven), Fastvold was and remains similarly determined to unshackle herself from the gospel truths of modern film production.
—David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 1 Dec. 2025
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“Unshackle.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/unshackle. Accessed 31 Jan. 2026.
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