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Recent Examples of untether
Republicans want to untether Virginia from California’s automobile emissions guidelines, which require that all new vehicles be electric or hydrogen-powered by 2035.
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Laura Vozzella, Washington Post, 9 Jan. 2023
It gets skewed into these wild and intensely dogmatic beliefs that untether people from reality.
—Candice Benbow, Essence, 15 Dec. 2022
With Revolver, the Beatles finally took the time to untether themselves from their past.
—Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 25 Oct. 2022
Yet as Lourenço has shown in Angola, sometimes new leaders can untether themselves from their patrons.
—Judd Devermont, Foreign Affairs, 11 June 2019
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Laura Vozzella, Washington Post, 9 Jan. 2023
It gets skewed into these wild and intensely dogmatic beliefs that untether people from reality.
—Candice Benbow, Essence, 15 Dec. 2022
With Revolver, the Beatles finally took the time to untether themselves from their past.
—Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 25 Oct. 2022
Yet as Lourenço has shown in Angola, sometimes new leaders can untether themselves from their patrons.
—Judd Devermont, Foreign Affairs, 11 June 2019
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for untether
Verb
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Even Jones now agrees a special session may be necessary this summer to untie the legal knot.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
23 Apr. 2026
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More intricate knots can be designed to untie in stages, resulting in sequential movements similar to a gymnastic routine.—
Aman Tripathi,
Interesting Engineering,
23 Apr. 2026
Verb
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Check out the wide-mouthed scream unleashed by the Lakers’ Luke Kennard midway through the fourth quarter.—
Assistant Sports Editor,
Los Angeles Times,
20 Apr. 2026
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Artificial intelligence has unleashed the most upheaval within the industry since Jobs unveiled the first iPhone in 2007.—
Michael Liedtke,
Chicago Tribune,
20 Apr. 2026
Verb
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This work unbinds the body from centuries of Western imagery, freeing it from representation and opening it to abstraction.—
Mame-Diarra Niang,
Artforum,
2 Nov. 2025
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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
Verb
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If your button-down outfit is in need of a little spice, a quick trick is to unfasten the top and slip out a single shoulder.—
Sri Rain Stewart,
InStyle,
13 Jan. 2026
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Skinny Pedro unfastened his seat belt and turned his seat around to face me.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
12 Jan. 2026
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“Untether.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/untether. Accessed 28 Apr. 2026.
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