unshackle

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Recent Examples of unshackle With family and friends nearby, Combs was sitting there unshackled in the Daniel Patrick Moynihan Courthouse on Friday. Dominic Patten, Deadline, 22 Nov. 2024 Combs, who wore tan prison clothing to Tuesday’s hearing, appeared without chains around his ankles after his legal team requested the court permit him to be unshackled. John Annese, New York Daily News, 20 Nov. 2024 In many ways, Trump's own administration at least for its first two years would be unshackled too. Gaurav Sharma, Forbes, 6 Nov. 2024 Rap is a commercial and creative outlet not unshackled from the overarching jingoist predilections binding its place of origin. Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 1 Nov. 2024 See all Example Sentences for unshackle 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unshackle
Verb
  • Unlike technology companies that work to ensnare (and monetize) our attention, Foreman entrapped our bodies only to liberate our minds.
    Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 7 Jan. 2025
  • With the help of Trinity (Carrie-Anne Moss), Morpheus (Lawrence Fishburne) and a band of survivors who have managed to escape the program, Neo must liberate humanity from an army of robots who are using them as organic batteries.
    Kevin Lynn, Newsweek, 7 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • In 2015, at age 17, she was legally emancipated from her mother.
    Andrew Walsh, EW.com, 22 Dec. 2024
  • In that agreement, all Black people who had been enslaved by the Muscogee Nation were emancipated and provided with full Creek citizenship privileges, including the right to landownership.
    Caleb Gayle, The Atlantic, 17 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • When Henson refused to unchain herself from the fence, California Highway Patrol arrested her.
    Kate Talerico, The Mercury News, 7 Aug. 2024
  • Max eventually unchains himself and helps Furiosa in her quest to free the cult leader's wives, gaining mutual respect along the way.
    EW Staff, EW.com, 3 July 2024
Verb
  • As spring ends, maple trees begin to unfetter winged seeds that flutter and swirl from branches to land gently on the ground.
    Nikk Ogasa, Scientific American, 22 Sep. 2021
  • 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.
    New York Times, New York Times, 8 July 2022
Verb
  • Millions were enfranchised when women got the vote in 1920, but Black women were mostly excluded from voting due to legal discrimination.
    JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 18 Sep. 2024
  • Comprehensively enfranchising migrants as urban citizens could lead to severe backlash from the urban elites—the constituency with which the CCP most closely aligns.
    Damien Ma, Foreign Affairs, 25 Aug. 2015
Verb
  • The book was centered on the idea that Russia’s geography is its fate and that there is nothing any ruler can do to unbind himself from the necessities of securing his lands.
    Anton Barbashin, Foreign Affairs, 31 Mar. 2014
  • The blazers who run the major championships have not yet commissioned sculptures of these two women, who so unbound their sport and gave the gift of professional aspiration to so many.
    Sally Jenkins, Anchorage Daily News, 3 July 2023
Verb
  • Events unmoor themselves from context.
    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
Verb
  • Tubman’s father had been manumitted by his owner, but Brodess had inherited Tubman, hiring her and her siblings out to neighbors for seasonal work, whether trapping muskrats or clearing land.
    Casey Cep, The New Yorker, 24 June 2024
  • Grant would manumit his one enslaved servant, William Jones, in 1859.
    Harold Holzer, WSJ, 1 Jan. 2024

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“Unshackle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unshackle. Accessed 21 Jan. 2025.

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