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adjective

Definition of unfetterednext
as in unleashed

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verb

past tense of unfetter
as in freed
to set free (as from slavery or confinement) authorities eventually unfettered the menagerie of wild animals that had been kept illegally as pets

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Recent Examples of unfettered
Adjective
Except for the unfettered devotion in the latter is replaced by swooping strings and a gushy chorus that merely offer an antiseptic veneer. — Melissa Ruggieri, USA Today, 18 June 2026 Best Handheld For full, unfettered access to each mess, many of our editors prefer a handheld device to get into every nook and cranny. — Blake Bakkila, Architectural Digest, 12 June 2026 Agents were unfettered to continue using the weapons elsewhere. — ProPublica, 10 June 2026 For Mills, nothing beats the unfettered connection caving has to nature. — Arati Menon, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for unfettered
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unfettered
  1. unleashed
  2. freed
  3. escaped
  4. liberated
  5. unchained
  6. released
  7. uncaged
  8. rescued
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
  • 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
  • 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
  • At first, Kelela felt liberated by the scene’s sense of freedom.
    — Jack Irvin, PEOPLE, 13 July 2026
  • Her parents arrived in America with her older sister in 1947 after getting liberated from Auschwitz concentration camp and losing most of their family in the Holocaust.
    — Michelle L. Quinn, Chicago Tribune, 11 July 2026
Definition of liberated
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
  • Destiny’s Child released their fifth and final album, Destiny Fulfilled, in 2004.
    — Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 23 July 2026
  • The county has not released estimates of how much each tax credit would be worth on average.
    — Ilana Arougheti July 23, Kansas City Star, 23 July 2026
Definition of released
Adjective
  • When the urge strikes him, Sam’s uncaged anger leads him to do horrible things.
    — Keith Langston, PEOPLE, 23 Apr. 2026
Definition of uncaged
Verb
  • Awaiting a happy ending Vargas’ team has been able to reunite at least 18 pets rescued in La Guaira with their owners.
    — Anabella Gonzalez, CNN Money, 19 July 2026
  • Ten people were rescued and sent to the hospital, while more than 1,100 people have been relocated.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 18 July 2026
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