as in to liberate
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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.
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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
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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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unshackle
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Their freedom came more than two years after President Abraham Lincoln liberated slaves in the Confederacy by signing the Emancipation Proclamation during the Civil War.—
Ani Freedman,
Fortune,
20 June 2025
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Two-and-a-half years after Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation, the enslaved people of Texas learned — via the victorious Union Army — that they were liberated.—
New York Daily News Editorial Board,
New York Daily News,
19 June 2025
Verb
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This kept their traditions alive until their ancestors were emancipated in the 1860s.—
Ben Abrams,
NPR,
19 June 2025
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Urging Lincoln to now issue an executive order for emancipating the slaves, Sumner was firmly rebuffed.—
Zaakir Tameez
June 11,
Literary Hub,
11 June 2025
Verb
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When Henson refused to unchain herself from the fence, California Highway Patrol arrested her.—
Kate Talerico,
The Mercury News,
7 Aug. 2024
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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
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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.—
Nikk Ogasa,
Scientific American,
22 Sep. 2021
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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.—
New York Times,
New York Times,
8 July 2022
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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
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Some other states specifically prohibit localities from enfranchising noncitizens.—
Jennifer Peltz,
Los Angeles Times,
20 Mar. 2025
Verb
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But for Buddhists, dying is an opportunity to unbind from the past and start again.—
Amanda Whiting,
Vulture,
16 Mar. 2025
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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
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Events unmoor themselves from context.—
Elizabeth Nelson,
New York Times,
6 Oct. 2021
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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
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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
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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 4 Jul. 2025.
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