UNSHACKLED Synonyms: 50 Similar and Opposite Words

unshackled

verb

past tense of unshackle

as in liberated

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At first, Kelela felt liberated by the scene’s sense of freedom.

— Jack Irvin, PEOPLE, 13 July 2026
Her parents arrived in America with her older sister in 1947 after getting liberated from Auschwitz concentration camp and losing most of their family in the Holocaust.

— Michelle L. Quinn, Chicago Tribune, 11 July 2026

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In 1775, his first enslaver sold him to the commander of Framingham's Minute Men, who emancipated him, and Salem went on to fight at Lexington and Concord.

— Catherine Messier, The Providence Journal, 4 July 2026
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.

— Nabil Salih, Time, 26 May 2026

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Zarrab, who was born in Iran but was moved to Turkey with his family as a toddler, was initially arrested in 2013 as part of a sweeping anticorruption probe overseen by Turkish law enforcement officials — but he was quickly freed.

— ABC News, ABC News, 14 July 2026
Khanna said he and his team were ultimately freed after communication between the US Embassy and a high-level official in the Israeli government.

— Kaanita Iyer, CNN Money, 11 July 2026

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With every World Cup, the possibility that a genuine surprise will be sprung, either at the collective or the individual level, is shrinking.

— Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 17 July 2026
Ricketts sprung second-half sub Omar Yehya to the end line, and Yehya rewarded Moshobane for all his work by finding him in the box.

— Idaho Statesman, Idaho Statesman, 12 July 2026

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