unshackled

verb

past tense of unshackle
as in liberated

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  1. liberated
  2. emancipated
  3. freed
  4. sprang
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  • As a young medic in the US, Soldner saw those drawings when his division liberated the camp.
    — Sarah Douglas, ARTnews.com, 4 Sep. 2026
  • Chad Tracy is an attention-to-detail kind of guy, which helps explain why the Boston Red Sox liberated him from Triple-A obscurity in April to be their interim manager after Alex Cora was let go.
    — Steve Buckley, New York Times, 3 Sep. 2026
Definition of liberated
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  • Winter was legally emancipated and declared an adult at age 17 in 2015.
    — Ashley Hume, FOXNews.com, 18 Aug. 2026
  • 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
Definition of emancipated
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  • Put differently, blindness, two-handedness, and the continuous line are restraints that freed Nauman from the habits of description.
    — Jeffrey Weiss, Artforum, 1 Sep. 2026
  • The team uses the time freed up by technology to understand their clients better.
    — Jason Phillips, USA Today, 1 Sep. 2026
Definition of freed
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  • For the only time all season, Coach Tony Marandos sprung those creaky knees off the bench, stood up and let out a yell.
    — John Nogowski, Hartford Courant, 18 Aug. 2026
  • Her rehab team heard about the plan and sprung into action, planning bachelor and bachelorette parties to be held at the hospital.
    — Charlotte Phillipp, PEOPLE, 7 Aug. 2026
Definition of sprang
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