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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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Recent Examples of Synonyms for untether
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Several minutes later, Chenoweth reappeared onstage, in a black Blondie sweatshirt and untied white sparkly sneakers.—
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There was a big debate about that part where a kid tells Agnes that her shoes are untied.—
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The strike marks the first time in more than a year that Moscow has unleashed the Oreshnik, which can contain multiple warheads and carry either conventional or nuclear payloads.—
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The first batch of season 4 episodes were released on Peacock Thursday night, and the biggest headline was a new twist unleashed by host Alan Cumming just minutes into the game.—
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This work unbinds the body from centuries of Western imagery, freeing it from representation and opening it to abstraction.—
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But for Buddhists, dying is an opportunity to unbind from the past and start again.—
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Kelce unfastened the clasp on another necklace and then a third, before Chris Jones, his teammate for a decade, walked over and approached him.—
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Adama unfastened a padlock and loosened the chain securing the doors.—
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“Untether.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/untether. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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