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
Jesse Newell, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2025
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
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Adjective
With Worthy back, the Chiefs offense suddenly seems unbound as well.
—Jesse Newell, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2025
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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unbound
Adjective
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Joshua’s Carson Kilcoin tried to corral a bounding loose ball in the South Hills’ goalkeeper box, but was only able to dribble it forward.—
Darren Lauber,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
21 Mar. 2026
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Those include Mexico's Sinaloa cartel as well as the Cartel de los soles, or Cartel of the Suns, a term used to describe a loose network of corrupt, high-ranking military officers in neighboring Venezuela.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
21 Mar. 2026
Verb
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Newcastle were not united, but untied; undercooked and picked apart by their local rivals.—
George Caulkin,
New York Times,
20 Mar. 2026
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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
Verb
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Leqaa Kordia, a Palestinian woman who was detained by immigration agents for protesting at Columbia University, was freed on a $100,000 bond after spending one year in custody in Texas.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
18 Mar. 2026
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The individual was freed using hydraulic tools within minutes, according to fire officials.—
Justin Muszynski,
Hartford Courant,
17 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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My awe had barely subsided when, two minutes later, James got the ball, raced just past the free-throw line, and took flight.—
Louisa Thomas,
New Yorker,
22 Mar. 2026
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However, that detention request was not honored, and Jalloh was set free again, ICE told the Washington Examiner.—
Mia Cathell,
The Washington Examiner,
22 Mar. 2026
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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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This victory, incidentally, liberated the island of Taiwan and returned it to Chinese jurisdiction.—
Timothy Nerozzi,
The Washington Examiner,
13 Mar. 2026
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As Liu tells it, the insight that liberated her didn’t have to do with skating at all.—
Natasha O'Neill,
Vanity Fair,
6 Mar. 2026
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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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Still, Washington’s custodianship has loosened the grip of hardliners.—
Jeronimo Gonzalez,
semafor.com,
19 Mar. 2026
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Naloxone became widely available, restrictions on medications for opioid use disorder loosened, and communities educated people on the risks of fentanyl.—
Grey Gardner,
Oc Register,
15 Mar. 2026
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“Unbound.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unbound. Accessed 23 Mar. 2026.
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