unmooring

present participle of unmoor

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for unmooring
Verb
  • And by engaging with these powerful militaries, the group reinforced its self-image as a major regional player that was uniquely capable of liberating the Muslim world from corrupting American and Israeli influence.
    — April Longley Alley, Foreign Affairs, 11 Sep. 2026
  • And yet, liberating writing from the capitalist ethic has its own value.
    — M. C. Mah, Literary Hub, 19 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • 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.
    — Adam Serwer, The Atlantic, 19 May 2026
Verb
  • After mutual suspicion, the two arrived at a reluctant truce in which Paul was free to bring non-Jews into the Jesus movement, emancipating them from Jewish ritual, while the original Jerusalem circle continued to keep kosher, circumcise, and all the rest.
    — Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • Shelton springing east and west along the baseline, showing a rally tolerance and return strategy that lasted for hours.
    — James Hansen, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2026
  • In practical terms, that means no falling back in November and no springing forward in March.
    — Tiffany Acosta, AZCentral.com, 9 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Seventy percent chose oil, compared with 9% who selected freeing Venezuelans.
    — Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 21 Sep. 2026
  • Arévalo was tasked with not only freeing a state captured by kleptocrats, but also strengthening one that was fundamentally weak.
    — Will Freeman, The Atlantic, 20 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Perhaps, with opinion polls signaling a seismic snap in the other direction and economic conditions on the Great Plains so dismal, the Republican hold on rural America is loosening.
    — Kyle Paoletta, Harpers Magazine, 22 Sep. 2026
  • These parties’ platforms vary, but both point toward repatriating competences to national governments, weakening European Court of Justice jurisdiction, and loosening the common rules that make EU commitments credible to outside partners.
    — JONAS NAHM, Foreign Affairs, 14 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • The team from Vanderbilt University and the University of Maryland used chlorine to enable sulfur atoms to exchange a third electron during charging and discharging.
    — Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 25 Sep. 2026
  • Peters and two other men were summoned to appear on charges of discharging a gun in public.
    — Greg Wehner, FOXNews.com, 22 Sep. 2026
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“Unmooring.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unmooring. Accessed 29 Sep. 2026.

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