as in loose
not bound, confined, or detained by force
a dog left unbound in the yard
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as in untied
to disengage the knotted parts of
unbind a rope
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as in freed
to set free (as from slavery or confinement)
a newly elected democratic government whose first act was to unbind the nation's vast horde of political prisoners
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Recent Examples of unbound
Karen Palmer
september 19, Literary Hub, 19 Sep. 2025
Last year, Yang began to use analog simulations to tackle how the strong force might have behaved during some of the universe’s very earliest moments, when the quarks and gluons that later became bound up in hadrons may have existed as an unbound soup, called quark-gluon plasma.
—Shalma Wegsman, Quanta Magazine, 5 Sep. 2025
On July 8, New Mexico’s Rio Ruidoso unbound from its banks for the second year in a row and swelled to 20 times its typical knee-high depth.
—Austyn Gaffney, The Atlantic, 28 Aug. 2025
These objects, unlike the planets of the solar system, were also unbound to a star and therefore free-floating in the universe.
—Robert Lea, Space.com, 30 July 2025
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Adjective
Ideas flow when the body is occupied but the mind is unbound.
—Karen Palmer
september 19, Literary Hub, 19 Sep. 2025
Last year, Yang began to use analog simulations to tackle how the strong force might have behaved during some of the universe’s very earliest moments, when the quarks and gluons that later became bound up in hadrons may have existed as an unbound soup, called quark-gluon plasma.
—Shalma Wegsman, Quanta Magazine, 5 Sep. 2025
On July 8, New Mexico’s Rio Ruidoso unbound from its banks for the second year in a row and swelled to 20 times its typical knee-high depth.
—Austyn Gaffney, The Atlantic, 28 Aug. 2025
These objects, unlike the planets of the solar system, were also unbound to a star and therefore free-floating in the universe.
—Robert Lea, Space.com, 30 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unbound
Adjective
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Wear it over jeans or a coat for a waist-defining moment; knotted over your shoulder as a capelet, or loose for undone elegance.—
Talia Abbas,
Vogue,
28 Feb. 2026
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Beckett Sennecke kept the puck and shot on a two-on-one break, with Kreider backhanding the loose puck in at the side of the net.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
28 Feb. 2026
Verb
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Eventually, a soldier came and returned my ID, removed the blindfold, untied me, and ordered me to go south immediately.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
17 Feb. 2026
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Romero said their hands were eventually untied and they were ultimately released.—
Michael Kaplan,
CBS News,
10 Feb. 2026
Verb
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Some business leaders have argued the prime downtown land could be freed for redevelopment, potentially reshaping the city’s core and unlocking private investment if City Hall relocates.—
Dallas Morning News,
Dallas Morning News,
24 Feb. 2026
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Ng was arrested on Sunday and freed on $150,000 bond, secured by his sister, following a remote video hearing, so planned because of the snowstorm.—
John Annese,
New York Daily News,
24 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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His repression and economic mismanagement mean Iran is in desperate and self-evident need of change, his people yearning to be freer and richer.—
Nick Paton Walsh,
CNN Money,
1 Mar. 2026
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While there could be other targets in the draft and free agency, those two make sense.—
Joseph Hoyt,
Dallas Morning News,
28 Feb. 2026
Verb
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Skinny Pedro unfastened his seat belt and turned his seat around to face me.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
12 Jan. 2026
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Kelce unfastened the clasp on another necklace and then a third, before Chris Jones, his teammate for a decade, walked over and approached him.—
Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
5 Jan. 2026
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Having liberated himself from the lie that the Fab Four were still a going enterprise, McCartney retreated to his rustic farm in a remote corner of Scotland, a central element of Man on the Run, captured in evocative footage both vintage and new.—
Sheri Linden,
HollywoodReporter,
25 Feb. 2026
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Trump’s tariffs were advertised as a revenue source liberated from the restraints imposed by Article I of the Constitution.—
David Frum,
The Atlantic,
20 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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Another unconfined delegation that should be subject to judicial scrutiny is provided by the Civil Rights Restoration Act, passed by the Democrats over President Ronald Reagan’s veto, which established the government’s power to arbitrarily withhold funding from universities.—
George Liebmann,
Baltimore Sun,
1 June 2025
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This accounted for just 3 percent of heating fires overall, but these led to more than 40 percent of fatalities, in part because portable heaters tend to be placed precisely where people live and sleep, and because the resulting fires are far more likely to be unconfined.—
Matthew Korfhage,
WIRED,
24 Mar. 2025
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Meanwhile, on Wednesday, Anthropic had loosened its core safety policy to better adapt to a fast-moving market in which competitors may not abide by the same safety standards.—
Auzinea Bacon,
CNN Money,
28 Feb. 2026
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The Austin City Council on Thursday indefinitely postponed a controversial proposal that would have loosened long-standing city regulations governing billboard placement, shelving — at least for now — a measure that had reignited one of City Hall’s most durable land-use battles.—
Chaya Tong,
Austin American Statesman,
27 Feb. 2026
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“Unbound.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unbound. Accessed 1 Mar. 2026.
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