untrammeled
adjective
un·tram·meled
ˌən-ˈtra-məld 
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US untrammeled
or British untrammelled
: not confined, limited, or impeded
untrammeled greed/arrogance
the untrammeled free market
Since the later 1990s, when the first news sites were introduced on the Internet, most papers have offered untrammeled access to them.—
Michael Massing
Michael MassingShe looks back with amazement at the untrammeled single life she enjoyed not so long ago.—Paul Gray
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Warrantless search and seizure, deception, untrammeled use of force.
—Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 25 Apr. 2025
Who, after all, could argue against the untrammeled freedom to speak?
—David Robert Grimes, Scientific American, 3 Apr. 2025
But his comix are best understood as a bottom-up effort to return a neutered art form—one that afforded him untrammeled fantasy as a kid—to a place of illegitimacy and anarchy, shame and desire, surplus and oblivion.
—Dan Piepenbring, Harper's Magazine, 3 Mar. 2025
The Trump administration, all too aware of sheriffs’ untrammeled power, has been recruiting them as allies in its extra-legal war against California, and especially our immigrant families.
—Joe Mathews, The Mercury News, 14 Mar. 2025
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Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 25 Apr. 2025
Who, after all, could argue against the untrammeled freedom to speak?
—David Robert Grimes, Scientific American, 3 Apr. 2025
But his comix are best understood as a bottom-up effort to return a neutered art form—one that afforded him untrammeled fantasy as a kid—to a place of illegitimacy and anarchy, shame and desire, surplus and oblivion.
—Dan Piepenbring, Harper's Magazine, 3 Mar. 2025
The Trump administration, all too aware of sheriffs’ untrammeled power, has been recruiting them as allies in its extra-legal war against California, and especially our immigrant families.
—Joe Mathews, The Mercury News, 14 Mar. 2025
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“Untrammeled.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/untrammeled. Accessed 3 May. 2025.
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