unshackle

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Recent Examples of unshackle Getting it right, unshackling yourself from a loyalty to ideology. Charlotte Alter, TIME, 28 Feb. 2025 While these Democrats embrace their Republican colleagues, the cryptocurrency industry has been completely unshackled by the Trump administration. William Lambers, Newsweek, 7 Mar. 2025 At the prison, Van Tassel sat in the interview room and waited for Melissa to be unshackled and strip-searched. Lawrence Wright, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2025 The administration will likely attempt to unshackle Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the mortgage guarantors, from their current position as wards of the state, Andrea Riquier reports. Daniel De Visé, USA TODAY, 18 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for unshackle
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unshackle
Verb
  • Season 2 offers a chilling, darkly hilarious and oddly liberating spin on a bad day at the office.
    Michael Ordoña, Los Angeles Times, 20 May 2025
  • Even drinking a large glass of water can remind you to turn off the work-thoughts and liberate yourself to focus on everything else.
    Tracy Brower, Forbes.com, 18 May 2025
Verb
  • Fox taught that the Inner Light emancipates a person from adherence to any creed, ecclesiastical authority or ritual forms.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 11 May 2025
  • Juneteenth, which takes place on June 19, marks the day the last of the enslaved Americans learned they had been emancipated.
    Cheyanne M. Daniels, The Hill, 28 Apr. 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
  • Some other states specifically prohibit localities from enfranchising noncitizens.
    Jennifer Peltz, Los Angeles Times, 20 Mar. 2025
  • Thus enfranchised, Hackman took on Richard Harris’ elegant killer English Bob with gusto, mixing in a bravura oratorical gavotte with ample kicks to the ribs, and summoning the Best Supporting Actor trophy.
    Fred Schruers, IndieWire, 27 Feb. 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 25 May. 2025.

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