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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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  • While maybe not what anyone would call a feminist show, Charlie’s Angels did come along right when women were first being liberated on network TV.
    — Michael Callahan, HollywoodReporter, 11 Sep. 2026
  • As a young medic in the US, Soldner saw those drawings when his division liberated the camp.
    — Sarah Douglas, ARTnews.com, 4 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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  • Just that 30-second interaction in Bobby’s office totally freed me up.
    — Jayson Jenks, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2026
  • An airport employee and officers freed the pilot from his parachute and pulled him from the plane, police said.
    — Stephen Sorace, FOXNews.com, 10 Sep. 2026
Definition of freed
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  • Receiver Khalil Shakir, who’d juked slot safety Jalen Pitre and sprung open near the first-down marker, fully expected to get the ball in stride.
    — Michael Silver, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2026
  • After two hours of practice, with the 10-foot-tall fences doing little to muffle the bullhorn orders and corresponding groans, the huddle broke and the personalities sprung to life.
    — Noah White, Washington Post, 14 Sep. 2026
Definition of sprang
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“Unshackled.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unshackled. Accessed 21 Sep. 2026.

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