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Recent Examples of unmoor
The German Greens, now part of the country’s ruling coalition, lashed out at previous governments for not working faster to unmoor Germany’s economy from Russian fossil fuels.
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Washington Post,
21 Apr. 2022
From the death of her father at 13 to her mother's refusal to take in Owusu and her sister afterward, the author navigates hardships and searches for identity, eventually pulling herself back together following a breakdown that threatens to unmoor her.
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Toni Fitzgerald,
Forbes,
8 June 2021
When announced at Jackson Hole in August, the goal of the Fed’s new doctrine was actually to unmoor inflation expectations, which were purportedly running too low for too long.
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Kevin Warsh,
WSJ,
7 June 2021
But the overarching ambitions laid out by Sims-Fewer and Mancinelli, who’ve collaborated before on a handful of notable short films, unmoor the writer-directors from the heart of their subject.
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K. Austin Collins,
Rolling Stone,
27 Mar. 2021
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Washington Post,
21 Apr. 2022
From the death of her father at 13 to her mother's refusal to take in Owusu and her sister afterward, the author navigates hardships and searches for identity, eventually pulling herself back together following a breakdown that threatens to unmoor her.
—
Toni Fitzgerald,
Forbes,
8 June 2021
When announced at Jackson Hole in August, the goal of the Fed’s new doctrine was actually to unmoor inflation expectations, which were purportedly running too low for too long.
—
Kevin Warsh,
WSJ,
7 June 2021
But the overarching ambitions laid out by Sims-Fewer and Mancinelli, who’ve collaborated before on a handful of notable short films, unmoor the writer-directors from the heart of their subject.
—
K. Austin Collins,
Rolling Stone,
27 Mar. 2021
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When the United States invaded the Philippines during the Spanish-American War, Twain naively imagined that the country would be liberated and turned into a republic.
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Automation that was meant to liberate becomes a maze of fragile scripts and blame-shifting alerts.
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Still, lawmakers believe embracing nuclear energy is essential to unshackle the Philippines from volatile global energy markets.
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Recently, many have remarked that our great city stands at a crossroads, ready to unshackle itself from the mistakes of the past but uncertain as to how.
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Finally, David ends the episode with a discussion of Shakespeare’s Othello and how ancient plays can emancipate readers from some of their modern prejudices.
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The long shadow of the occupation Twenty-three years after George Bush and Tony Blair resolved that Iraqis were to be emancipated, the country remains captive to a masquerade of power.
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The nationwide standalone 5G that the carrier announced Wednesday essentially unchains that service from 4G LTE, allowing devices to connect to the network without first requiring a setup via AT&T’s older and slower network.
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When Henson refused to unchain herself from the fence, California Highway Patrol arrested her.
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The state is an outlier in taking days to count most votes, but supporters of the system say it is designed to enfranchise more people while protecting against fraud.
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The Radical Republican Congressman Thaddeus Stevens, as Michael Waldman writes in The Fight to Vote, was even blunter than Sumner about the necessity of enfranchising Black men.
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This work unbinds the body from centuries of Western imagery, freeing it from representation and opening it to abstraction.
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But for Buddhists, dying is an opportunity to unbind from the past and start again.
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With the help of the wise and mysterious maid Willie May (Latifah) and a stubborn new girl in school played by Mills, the boy must decide whether to set the tiger free and in turn uncage his emotional grief.
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The one who sets the bone-crushing screen that springs the star, then immediately sprints to the rim for the lob, then turns around and blows up the other team’s pick-and-roll on the other end all in one sequence?
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Alexander Isak — Sweden/Liverpool (-5) Sweden were a mess from back to front against Netherlands, but Isak still managed to spring Anthony Elanga to score their only goal of the game.
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“Unmoor.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unmoor. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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