unmooring

verb

present participle of unmoor
as in liberating

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  1. liberating
  2. enfranchising
  3. emancipating
  4. springing
  5. freeing
  6. loosening
  7. discharging
Verb
  • Shedding infrastructure is liberating only if there's a real relationship or service advantage underneath it.
    — Mushfig Aliyev, Forbes.com, 8 July 2026
  • Spirits of independence can be found throughout the week starting with two progressive and liberating comedy shows on Sunday, Joke Sistas and Comedy Bang!
    — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 27 June 2026
Definition of liberating
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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.
    — Adam Serwer, The Atlantic, 19 May 2026
Definition of enfranchising
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  • 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
Definition of emancipating
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  • But this is part of the magician’s sleight of hand, springing into life when his country need him most.
    — Dermot Corrigan, New York Times, 20 July 2026
  • Not free of clothes and springing away from a dense tangle of hair.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 17 July 2026
Definition of springing
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  • But also freeing myself from conventions in a day and age of algorithms.
    — William Earl, Variety, 24 July 2026
  • Nearly a century ago, John Maynard Keynes envisioned technology leading to abundance and more leisure, freeing humanity for deeper purpose.
    — Belonging Forum, Forbes.com, 22 July 2026
Definition of freeing
Verb
  • Briceno recommends anchoring your elbow, loosening your grip, and allowing the brush to do the work.
    — Marci Robin, Allure, 24 July 2026
  • Marijuana entrepreneurs and one of the president’s wealthy friends, Howard Kessler, eventually triumphed with direct appeals to the president, creating a playbook that Rogan followed in his outreach on loosening the regulation of psychedelics.
    — Michael Scherer, The Atlantic, 24 July 2026
Definition of loosening
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  • Johnson was arrested and faces charges of evading arrest/detention and discharging a firearm, police said.
    — Lillie Davidson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 24 July 2026
  • Morrow was charged with discharging a firearm within 500 feet of a building, disturbing the peace, carrying a firearm without a license, and unregistered motor vehicle.
    — Colleen Cronin, Boston Herald, 20 July 2026
Definition of discharging
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