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Recent Examples of unbind Lazarus had been dead four days, wrapped in a burial shroud and enclosed in a tomb, when Jesus instructed his followers to unbind him from his burial cloths. Jennifer Latson, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Aug. 2022 Perhaps, to vanish well entails allowing others to help unbind you, trusting them to keep your secrets. Longreads, 14 Apr. 2020 Despite becoming the first president ever to receive votes from both parties to convict and remove him from office in an impeachment trial, President Donald Trump today woke up in the White House unbound. Garrett M. Graff, Wired, 6 Feb. 2020 His is a generosity unbound by rules, regulations and codes. Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2019 See All Example Sentences for unbind
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unbind
Verb
  • And the bow isn’t just for show: For all but two of the color options, it can be untied and tightened to make the shoe fit more snugly, which was used to our tester’s benefit.
    Alyssa Grabinski, People.com, 21 June 2025
  • The Dodgers untied it in a big way, greeting Padres reliever Jeremiah Estrada with five consecutive hits in the sixth inning.
    Bill Plunkett, Oc Register, 17 June 2025
Verb
  • Their freedom came more than two years after President Abraham Lincoln liberated slaves in the Confederacy by signing the Emancipation Proclamation during the Civil War.
    Ani Freedman, Fortune, 20 June 2025
  • Two-and-a-half years after Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation, the enslaved people of Texas learned — via the victorious Union Army — that they were liberated.
    New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 19 June 2025
Verb
  • His bow tie wants to be untied, his vest buttons unfastened, his top hat removed.
    James Meyer, Artforum, 1 May 2025
  • On Black Friday last year, with the Chiefs and Raiders reserved for a national TV audience, quarterback Patrick Mahomes slammed a football between his hands and angrily unfastened his chin strap before yelling toward the sideline.
    Sam McDowell, Kansas City Star, 18 Apr. 2025
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  • Philip Andrew Douglass, 42, was freed on bond after an initial appearance before U.S. Magistrate Judge David Keesler.
    Joe Marusak, Charlotte Observer, 21 June 2025
  • Short of the savings being placed in a much bigger coffee can, government spending cuts born of efficiency, headcount reduction, mandate reduction, or all three would have just freed up money for Congress to spend in new ways.
    John Tamny, Forbes.com, 21 June 2025
Verb
  • Since returning to the White House, President Donald Trump has undone many of the Biden-era immigration policies.
    Ana Ceballos, Miami Herald, 28 June 2025
  • As the Catholic archdiocese hunts for ways to contract, it’s been shedding churches wholesale and having no trouble finding buyers that are tuned to the doings — or undoing — of religious organizations.
    Justin Davidson, Curbed, 27 June 2025
Verb
  • For every container of fireworks arriving at a U.S. port, importers must pay the tariff upfront, before customs even thinks about releasing the goods.
    Richard Howells, Forbes.com, 27 June 2025
  • Lyons was released from Tottenham’s youth system at age 16 and fell into depression before dying by suicide 10 years later.
    Colin Millar, New York Times, 27 June 2025
Verb
  • Artificial implants naturally wear out or loosen with time and activity.
    Colleen Doherty, Verywell Health, 27 June 2025
  • The challenges were steep enough that Georgia has decided to loosen its work verification protocols from monthly to once a year.
    ProPublica, ProPublica, 26 June 2025
Verb
  • For one prospective graduate student, an admission to Harvard’s Graduate School of Education had rescued her educational dreams.
    Sara Braun, Fortune, 21 June 2025
  • In New Hampshire, the state says people may be required to pay back the costs to rescue them.
    Rong-Gong Lin II, Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2025

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“Unbind.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unbind. Accessed 3 Jul. 2025.

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