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adjective

as in unfettered

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verb

past tense of uncage

as in freed

to set free (as from slavery or confinement) uncaged the bird and let it fly away

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Recent Examples of uncaged

Adjective

When the urge strikes him, Sam’s uncaged anger leads him to do horrible things. — Keith Langston, PEOPLE, 23 Apr. 2026

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Adjective

That means Roman will have the benefit of solar power and a lack of obstructions—giving it an unfettered look into the cosmos.

— Mary Randolph, Scientific American, 1 Sep. 2026
Instead, his navy jersey, meticulously embroidered with a white number 16 hangs unfettered with his unworn Bears helmet resting on a shelf above.

— Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN Money, 29 Aug. 2026

Definition of unfettered

Adjective

More than 1,000 people are dead and nearly 4,000 missing after a Himalayan glacial collapse unleashed catastrophic floods across the Nepal-China border, obliterating roads, towns and hydropower projects.

— Shristi Kafle, Los Angeles Times, 1 Sep. 2026
The film tells the story of a biological weapon being unleashed inside a Seoul skyscraper that turns the people trapped inside the building into a deadly zombie hive mind.

— Abid Rahman, HollywoodReporter, 1 Sep. 2026

Definition of unleashed

Verb

Apple has released new devices, including the company’s first foldable phone — and iPhone18 in new colors.

— Lim Hui Jie, CNBC, 10 Sep. 2026
Verbruggen illustrated his strengths in possession in the early stages against Leeds with a raking pass that released Maxim De Cuyper one-v-one against Jayden Bogle.

— Andy Naylor, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2026

Definition of released

Adjective

There is a minute’s ovation for Keegan, who was chief operations officer and then manager at Craven Cottage in the late 1990s, there is an unchained melody of bedlam, the creation of chaos and there are a lot of c***s.

— George Caulkin, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2026
Often the raconteur side is too unchained.

— Jed Gottlieb, Boston Herald, 25 May 2026

Definition of unchained

Verb

As a young medic in the US, Soldner saw those drawings when his division liberated the camp.

— Sarah Douglas, ARTnews.com, 4 Sep. 2026
Chad Tracy is an attention-to-detail kind of guy, which helps explain why the Boston Red Sox liberated him from Triple-A obscurity in April to be their interim manager after Alex Cora was let go.

— Steve Buckley, New York Times, 3 Sep. 2026

Definition of liberated

Adjective

But these stats reflect firefighting progress at this stage rather than an escaped blaze, the department's public affairs officer Tiffany Davilla explained.

— Joan Meiners, AZCentral.com, 28 Aug. 2026
Indiana State Police said that an escaped prisoner in Northwest Indiana has been captured.

— Sara Tenenbaum, CBS News, 25 Aug. 2026

Definition of escaped

Verb

Schiano rescued the program from irrelevance, but modest respectability might be all Rutgers can afford this season — if that.

— Manny Navarro, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2026
Images of the man and woman being rescued were posted by Nepal’s Office of the Prime Minister and Council of Ministers on Saturday, confirming the rescues.

— Jon Haworth, ABC News, 5 Sep. 2026

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