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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

Recent Examples of Synonyms for uncaged

Adjective

What might inspire someone who just graduated from probation to go on such an unfettered killing spree?

— David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 24 July 2026
Users are prompting generative AI to bypass limitations, arguing for unfettered access and user responsibility.

— Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 23 July 2026

Definition of unfettered

Verb

An additional 10% could be freed up if the stock closes at least 30% above the IPO price for five of the ten trading days heading into the report.

— Lora Kolodny,Samantha Subin, CNBC, 21 July 2026
After firefighters freed her, paramedics took her to Scripps Memorial Hospital La Jolla, where she was pronounced dead.

— City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 July 2026

Definition of freed

Adjective

The slump in office leasing also unleashed waves of slumping values, failed property loans and even foreclosures of delinquent mortgages.

— George Avalos, Mercury News, 16 July 2026
The 24-year-old Italian hung in with his serve and his scrambling as Zverev unleashed wave after wave of unreturned serves and laser forehands, before clicking into gear to come from a set down and lift the trophy again, 6-7(7), 7-6(2), 6-3, 6-4.

— Ava Wallace, New York Times, 13 July 2026

Definition of unleashed

Verb

Hur, following his investigation into Biden’s alleged mishandling of classified documents, released a lengthy report in February 2024 that concluded no criminal charges were warranted against Biden.

— Antonio Pequeño IV, Forbes.com, 30 July 2026
Under Georgia law, a judge can decide whether a defendant serves that sentence in prison or on probation, so Colin Gray could be released Thursday.

— Eric Levenson, CNN Money, 30 July 2026

Definition of released

Verb

He was born in western Ukraine and attended a military school in Kharkiv – the city liberated by Ukrainian forces in 2022 after a brutal Russian occupation early in the war.

— Issy Ronald, CNN Money, 21 July 2026
This story was discovered in a trove of 263 songs collected by Moisei Beregovsky, a Soviet Jewish ethnomusicologist who recorded Yiddish music from Jews in Ukraine just after they were liberated from the Romanian occupation in 1944.

— Shira Li Bartov, Sun Sentinel, 20 July 2026

Definition of liberated

Adjective

Before the successful capture, the Galahad SPCA said it had been asked not to capture the escaped marsupial or otherwise intervene.

— Bailey Richards, PEOPLE, 17 June 2026
Stitch centers on a lonely girl who befriends a blue puppy that turns out to be an escaped alien engineered to be a weapon of mass destruction.

— Borys Kit, HollywoodReporter, 12 June 2026

Definition of escaped

Verb

In Biden’s case, South Carolinians rescued his seemingly moribund campaign.

— W. James Antle III, The Washington Examiner, 25 July 2026
Multiple people have been rescued after a seaplane carrying 11 people made an emergency landing Thursday off the coast of Washington, prompting a multi-agency search and rescue operation.

— Martin Goillandeau, CNN Money, 24 July 2026

Definition of rescued

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