How to Use unfettered in a Sentence

unfettered

adjective
  • Concerns about the harm of unfettered speech have flared on the left in the United States since the 1970s.
    New York Times, 13 Oct. 2020
  • This kind of drug use might not be as brave or unfettered as Hart’s.
    Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 29 Apr. 2021
  • Would goods and people be able to pass unfettered to-and-from an EU and non-EU state?
    Alasdair Lane, Forbes, 11 May 2021
  • The internet was largely unfettered, a portal to the rest of the world.
    New York Times, 7 Mar. 2022
  • Plus, trails and parks are free of summer crowds—which means more unfettered miles for you.
    Lauren Joseph, SELF, 18 Nov. 2021
  • And some of his patients have had unfettered access to screens for most their lives.
    Washington Post, 9 May 2022
  • Trump’s ban in the name of unfettered free speech remains unclear.
    Washington Post, 26 Apr. 2022
  • The spot fires, left unfettered, now grow and begin to converge.
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  • Even when he got cleared, he was rarely allowed to play unfettered.
    Christian Clark | Staff Writer, NOLA.com, 6 Dec. 2020
  • The era of growing trade comity, and free and unfettered trade with rivals, is looking more like a fad and less like the end point of a trend.
    Josh Zumbrun, WSJ, 10 Mar. 2022
  • To be sure, unfettered low-cost supply chains are not an end in themselves.
    Jason Bordoff, Foreign Affairs, 18 Jan. 2024
  • Yet Weinzierl adds that Earth is full of unfettered capital, and space offers one new place to park it.
    Rebecca Boyle, Scientific American, 28 July 2022
  • In all these cases, users may not want others to have unfettered access to their phone.
    Cheryl Winokur Munk, CNBC, 16 Sep. 2024
  • The law, know as Section 230, has served as the foundation for unfettered speech on the internet.
    CBS News, 1 Oct. 2020
  • The suit paints a picture of Phillips as someone to whom WWE gave unfettered access to kids and the means to abuse them, such as private locker rooms.
    David Bixenspan, Rolling Stone, 23 Oct. 2024
  • Which is all to say, the solution might be to give in to the unfettered capitalism that got us into this mess.
    Matt Simon, Wired, 26 Jan. 2021
  • With more than 140 private acres of land, this cozy farm cottage comes with unfettered views of the West Virginia landscape.
    Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 2 Aug. 2021
  • The show is about unfettered hedonism, in some ways, so there was a little bit of embracing that.
    Marlow Stern, Rolling Stone, 12 Dec. 2022
  • The goal is simply to sign and build acts unfettered by attaching labels.
    Melinda Newman, Billboard, 16 Feb. 2024
  • Those Longhorns played like an unfettered animal that had to either succeed on the hunt or starve.
    Nick Moyle, ExpressNews.com, 20 Nov. 2020
  • Matze says that while unfettered speech is at the core of the platform, there are nonetheless some rules that govern Parler.
    Los Angeles Times, 25 Nov. 2020
  • This is about the American people's right to vote, unfettered.
    Trish Turner and Allison Pecorin, ABC News, 22 June 2021
  • Parler burst onto the scene in 2018 touting itself as a place for unfettered free speech.
    Washington Post, 17 May 2021
  • Argentina, 1985 reminds us that the unfettered truth is strong medicine.
    Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Sep. 2022
  • The lower the threshold for trust and spread, the more the ideas produced by any random person circulate unfettered.
    Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 22 Oct. 2021
  • The film was blessed by the Bowie estate, which gave Morgen the freedom to scour his artistic vaults, a process that took two years and the first time anyone has had such unfettered access.
    Melissa Ruggieri, USA TODAY, 16 Sep. 2022
  • There was a loose, unfettered vibe to the evening, and White appeared to be calling audibles to his bandmates throughout.
    Brian McCollum, Detroit Free Press, 6 Aug. 2024
  • After a brief honeymoon of unfettered speech, pro-regime trolls and surveillance emerged on the site.
    Jacob Silverman, The New Republic, 9 Apr. 2021
  • The proposals would make changes to a provision of a 1996 law that has been the foundation for unfettered speech on the internet.
    Marcy Gordon, Star Tribune, 28 Oct. 2020
  • But that unfettered access to new and vintage content comes at a price for Hollywood.
    Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 18 Oct. 2024

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