unshackle

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Recent Examples of unshackle The campaign centered on a sunny, optimistic vision of a United Kingdom, still a prominent global player, but merely unshackled from the restraints of Brussels. Douglas Murray, Foreign Affairs, 10 Nov. 2016 But even that won’t work if a broad majority of Palestinians isn’t willing to unshackle themselves from Hamas’ political and ideological grip. Bret Stephens, Mercury News, 4 Apr. 2025 Lurking behind our unease is a fantasy of total, unshackled cognitive freedom. Nikhil Krishnan, New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2025 Getting it right, unshackling yourself from a loyalty to ideology. Charlotte Alter, TIME, 28 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for unshackle
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unshackle
Verb
  • Determined to liberate Panem, Katniss and her fellow rebels embark on a dangerous journey into the heart of the Capitol to save the nation from President Snow’s tyranny once and for all.
    Kelly Martinez Published, EW.com, 5 July 2025
  • Technology leaders must liberate their technology roadmap to serve the business first and technology vendors last.
    Rob LaMear, Forbes.com, 3 July 2025
Verb
  • The South American liberation leader Simón Bolívar emancipated the slave laborers who worked on his family’s estate—unlike George Washington and Thomas Jefferson.
    Carolina A. Miranda, The Atlantic, 30 June 2025
  • Kate Hudson considered being emancipated from her parents, Goldie Hawn and Bill Hudson, to better her Hollywood career.
    Janelle Ash, FOXNews.com, 28 June 2025
Verb
  • When Henson refused to unchain herself from the fence, California Highway Patrol arrested her.
    Kate Talerico, The Mercury News, 7 Aug. 2024
  • Max eventually unchains himself and helps Furiosa in her quest to free the cult leader's wives, gaining mutual respect along the way.
    EW Staff, EW.com, 3 July 2024
Verb
  • As spring ends, maple trees begin to unfetter winged seeds that flutter and swirl from branches to land gently on the ground.
    Nikk Ogasa, Scientific American, 22 Sep. 2021
  • His long run in office, however, delivered only partial victories on his two primary ambitions: to unfetter Japan’s military after decades of postwar pacifism and to jump-start and overhaul its economy through a program known as Abenomics.
    New York Times, New York Times, 8 July 2022
Verb
  • About a year after the infirmary team returned to the United States, the 19th Amendment became law, enfranchising 27 million women, the largest expansion of voting rights in American history.
    Amy Sohn, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 June 2025
  • Some other states specifically prohibit localities from enfranchising noncitizens.
    Jennifer Peltz, Los Angeles Times, 20 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • But for Buddhists, dying is an opportunity to unbind from the past and start again.
    Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 16 Mar. 2025
  • The book was centered on the idea that Russia’s geography is its fate and that there is nothing any ruler can do to unbind himself from the necessities of securing his lands.
    Anton Barbashin, Foreign Affairs, 31 Mar. 2014
Verb
  • Events unmoor themselves from context.
    Elizabeth Nelson, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2021
  • 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
Verb
  • Tubman’s father had been manumitted by his owner, but Brodess had inherited Tubman, hiring her and her siblings out to neighbors for seasonal work, whether trapping muskrats or clearing land.
    Casey Cep, The New Yorker, 24 June 2024
  • Grant would manumit his one enslaved servant, William Jones, in 1859.
    Harold Holzer, WSJ, 1 Jan. 2024

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“Unshackle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unshackle. Accessed 11 Jul. 2025.

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