unanchored

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Recent Examples of unanchored And Treasury yields have not exactly become unanchored from long-prevailing trends. Michael Santoli, CNBC, 26 May 2025 Consumer expectations for inflation popped to their highest levels in more than a year, threatening to become unanchored on the heels of strong economic performance in recent months. Tobias Burns, The Hill, 7 Feb. 2025 Twisters at that strength can destroy mobile homes, flip or lift cars, and sweep away unanchored homes. Hannah Parry, Newsweek, 26 Dec. 2024 Convenience retail, consisting of grocery and unanchored shopping centers, continues to benefit from strong supply-and-demand fundamentals. Mike Hazinski, Forbes, 17 Dec. 2024 See All Example Sentences for unanchored
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unanchored
Adjective
  • Glenn ripped himself for allowing his team to come undone after Hall’s fumble.
    Ian O'Connor, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2025
  • Instead of donning a perfectly intact hairdo, Kravitz opted for the undone aesthetic; her hair was halfway trapped under the collar of her windbreaker.
    Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 3 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • The images featured Williams striking several poses while standing in knee-deep waters, wearing a yellow, one-piece swimsuit with a cutout in the center and an untied bowtie.
    Skyler Caruso, People.com, 21 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • So that was wonderful and the next minute the woman, waitress, air hostess, was carting grog down to the Warlps who decided to bring out the boomerangs and there was loud singing of love, then of country, then unfettered crying for Yuendumu, all in Warlpiri, and the grog kept flowing.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Should children have unfettered access to interactive roleplay, without clear guardrails to keep conversations PG-13?
    Alyssa Goldberg, USA Today, 20 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Getty floated the idea for an advisory board after realizing that music fans of his generation felt disengaged from Sweetwater and were unaware of its mission as a nonprofit arts organization.
    Paul Liberatore, Mercury News, 17 Oct. 2025
  • The pool of talent shrinks when young people become disengaged from education or skill-building because of emotional distress.
    Dr. Ritu Goel, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • In May, a fisherman fell into the water and drowned after the seat on his bass boat became unbolted.
    Tanasia Kenney, Miami Herald, 6 June 2024
  • In a press event Thursday evening, Tesla's somewhat oddly attired Elon Musk showed how the the company's Tesla S luxury sedan could be recharged in just 90 seconds, hovering over a robotic setup in which the battery would be automatically located, unbolted, removed, and replaced.
    IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 3 Mar. 2023

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“Unanchored.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unanchored. Accessed 28 Oct. 2025.

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