unmoored; unmooring; unmoors
: to loosen from or as if from moorings
: to cast off moorings
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Events unmoor themselves from context.
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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
The film should be highly disturbing, but the dramatic tension never gels, despite composer Christopher Stacey’s efforts to unmoor us by injecting discordant strings beneath mundane scenes.
—Peter Debruge, Variety, 18 Feb. 2023
To accommodate Campos’s cavalry, P.S.G. has had to unmoor Leandro Paredes, Ander Herrera, Georginio Wijnaldum, Idrissa Gueye, Julian Draxler, Ángel Di Maria and Xavi Simons this summer, too.
—Rory Smith, New York Times, 2 Sep. 2022
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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
The film should be highly disturbing, but the dramatic tension never gels, despite composer Christopher Stacey’s efforts to unmoor us by injecting discordant strings beneath mundane scenes.
—Peter Debruge, Variety, 18 Feb. 2023
To accommodate Campos’s cavalry, P.S.G. has had to unmoor Leandro Paredes, Ander Herrera, Georginio Wijnaldum, Idrissa Gueye, Julian Draxler, Ángel Di Maria and Xavi Simons this summer, too.
—Rory Smith, New York Times, 2 Sep. 2022
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“Unmoor.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/unmoor. Accessed 31 Oct. 2024.
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