as in to liberate
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Recent Examples of unshackle
In doing so, the killer helped unshackle dark forces—chief among them anti-Semitism—that now threaten to overtake the conservative movement.
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Yair Rosenberg,
The Atlantic,
4 Feb. 2026
The jury was filing out of the courtroom on Sept. 23 when Routh, unshackled, grabbed a pen from a desk and thrust it toward himself.
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Kinsey Crowley,
USA Today,
4 Feb. 2026
Where Ann Lee sought to dance herself clean from the Church of England (and its oppressive insistence that suffering is the surest path to heaven), Fastvold was and remains similarly determined to unshackle herself from the gospel truths of modern film production.
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David Ehrlich,
IndieWire,
1 Dec. 2025
His orations of statistics, stories, and argumentative persuasion at colleges were energetic, frictious, and necessary to unshackle us from grievance and tribalism.
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Alex Rosado,
MSNBC Newsweek,
11 Sep. 2025
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Yair Rosenberg,
The Atlantic,
4 Feb. 2026
The jury was filing out of the courtroom on Sept. 23 when Routh, unshackled, grabbed a pen from a desk and thrust it toward himself.
—
Kinsey Crowley,
USA Today,
4 Feb. 2026
Where Ann Lee sought to dance herself clean from the Church of England (and its oppressive insistence that suffering is the surest path to heaven), Fastvold was and remains similarly determined to unshackle herself from the gospel truths of modern film production.
—
David Ehrlich,
IndieWire,
1 Dec. 2025
His orations of statistics, stories, and argumentative persuasion at colleges were energetic, frictious, and necessary to unshackle us from grievance and tribalism.
—
Alex Rosado,
MSNBC Newsweek,
11 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unshackle
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Harvard’s research confirms that AI liberates managers from coordination and relay tasks, freeing them for judgment, contextual intelligence, and human connection that no system can replicate.
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He is liberated from the constraints of [Republican leaders like] a Paul Ryan or a Mitch McConnell.
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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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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.
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As spring ends, maple trees begin to unfetter winged seeds that flutter and swirl from branches to land gently on the ground.
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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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The film should be highly disturbing, but the dramatic tension never gels, despite composer Christopher Stacey’s efforts to unmoor us by injecting discordant strings beneath mundane scenes.
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To accommodate Campos’s cavalry, P.S.G. has had to unmoor Leandro Paredes, Ander Herrera, Georginio Wijnaldum, Idrissa Gueye, Julian Draxler, Ángel Di Maria and Xavi Simons this summer, too.
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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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