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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
  1. unfettered
  2. freed
  3. unleashed
  4. released
  5. unchained
  6. liberated
  7. escaped
  8. rescued
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
  • Technology has repeatedly absorbed low-value work and freed people to focus on higher-value work.
    — Tim Bajarin, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2026
  • SpaceX reports its first-ever post-IPO quarterly earnings tonight, and on August 6 the company’s insiders and employees will be freed from the lockup period that prevents them from selling their stock.
    — Jim Edwards, Fortune, 4 Aug. 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
  • Officials said the man, identified as Farinacci, was released because a cause had not yet been determined, but he was later arrested and charged.
    — Morgan Chesky, NBC news, 6 Aug. 2026
  • More than 112,000 absentee ballots had already been returned by the day the poll was released.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 6 Aug. 2026
Definition of released
Adjective
  • Often the raconteur side is too unchained.
    — Jed Gottlieb, Boston Herald, 25 May 2026
  • Weisswange glanced around at the machines on either side of us, all of them waiting for repairs, their tracks unchained and gun barrels angled upward.
    — Simon Shuster, The Atlantic, 27 Mar. 2026
Definition of unchained
Verb
  • Indeed, by then, the hypnotic spell had been cast across all of Europe, including on those liberated from the drab tyrannies of actually existing socialism.
    — Cynthia Zarin, Harpers Magazine, 28 July 2026
  • 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
Definition of liberated
Adjective
  • Video released by the Washoe County Sheriff's Office shows deputies finding 23-year-old Chase Orput lying shirtless on railroad tracks moments before taking the escaped inmate back into custody.
    — Stepheny Price, FOXNews.com, 29 July 2026
  • 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
Definition of escaped
Verb
  • Roughly 35 Los Angeles city firefighters rescued a man stuck in his work truck inside a commercial building following a crash in Pacific Palisades on Thursday morning.
    — Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 31 July 2026
  • Three missing scuba divers were rescued after they became separated from their boat in rough conditions in the Florida Keys on Wednesday, July 29, 2026.
    — Steven Yablonski, CBS News, 31 July 2026
Definition of rescued

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“Uncaged.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/uncaged. Accessed 6 Aug. 2026.

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