as in to liberate
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Recent Examples of unshackle
Seemingly unshackled from what had been holding the Bills’ passing offense back previously, with the Bills down 34-19 at the end of the third quarter, Allen was practically perfect from that point forward.
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Joe Buscaglia, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2025
Bregman is sure to exercise the opt-out that would pay him $31.7 million next season for luxury tax purposes and try the market again as a free agent unshackled by a qualifying offer.
—Barry M. Bloom, Sportico.com, 8 Sep. 2025
To name the real problems, unshackled by politics or fear.
—Lisa Bodell, Forbes.com, 13 Aug. 2025
Society, in fact, needed to continue slavery for the interests of both Black and White since unshackling enslaved people would spark the race’s reversion to barbarism, imperiling White society.
—Literary Hub, 5 June 2025
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Hudson, for her part, felt liberated.—
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Russia’s president has claimed that his invasion of Ukraine was a mission to liberate the people of that country.—
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The actress would go on to struggle with addiction issues and in February 1991, emancipated herself at the age of 14.—
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All the black captives in liberated territories were emancipated, and Amador was proclaimed king.—
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The nationwide standalone 5G that the carrier announced Wednesday essentially unchains that service from 4G LTE, allowing devices to connect to the network without first requiring a setup via AT&T’s older and slower network.—
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When Henson refused to unchain herself from the fence, California Highway Patrol arrested her.—
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His long run in office, however, delivered only partial victories on his two primary ambitions: to unfetter Japan’s military after decades of postwar pacifism and to jump-start and overhaul its economy through a program known as Abenomics.—
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As spring ends, maple trees begin to unfetter winged seeds that flutter and swirl from branches to land gently on the ground.—
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The passage of the Fifteenth Amendment in 1870, which enfranchised formerly enslaved men, seemingly brought the push for voting rights to fruition.—
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Open primaries would enfranchise more than a million New York voters, who are disproportionately young and represent communities of color.—
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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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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.—
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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.—
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With the help of the wise and mysterious maid Willie May (Latifah) and a stubborn new girl in school played by Mills, the boy must decide whether to set the tiger free and in turn uncage his emotional grief.—
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“Unshackle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unshackle. Accessed 12 Jan. 2026.
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