unshackle
verb
un·shack·le
ˌən-ˈsha-kəl 
unshackled; unshackling; unshackles
: to free from shackles
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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.
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David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 1 Dec. 2025
The defense has also renewed its request for Mangione to sit unshackled at the defense table.
—Alice Gainer, CBS News, 1 Dec. 2025
Levi, like many others, found Ulysses’ speech to be a sustaining example of the human spirit unshackled.
—Claudia Roth Pierpont, New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2025
Entrepreneurship is often sold as something of a utopia — unshackled from the bureaucracy and politics of corporate life.
—Sawdah Bhaimiya, CNBC, 27 Sep. 2025
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David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 1 Dec. 2025
The defense has also renewed its request for Mangione to sit unshackled at the defense table.
—Alice Gainer, CBS News, 1 Dec. 2025
Levi, like many others, found Ulysses’ speech to be a sustaining example of the human spirit unshackled.
—Claudia Roth Pierpont, New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2025
Entrepreneurship is often sold as something of a utopia — unshackled from the bureaucracy and politics of corporate life.
—Sawdah Bhaimiya, CNBC, 27 Sep. 2025
See All Example Sentences for unshackle
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“Unshackle.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/unshackle. Accessed 11 Dec. 2025.
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