as in to liberate
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Recent Examples of unshackle
Some thoughts: advertisement Sarepta is unshackled.
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Adam Feuerstein, STAT, 21 June 2024
Trump pulled out of the Iran nuclear deal despite Iranian compliance, unshackling the country’s nuclear program, escalating a proxy war across the Middle East, and sowing doubt across the world about whether the United States keeps its word.
—Ben Rhodes, Foreign Affairs, 18 June 2024
In their quest to unshackle mind from body, the philosopher-kings needed somewhere to trace their disgusting, desirous urges back to, a vessel for shame and blame.
—Molly Fischer, The New Yorker, 24 Apr. 2024
France’s revolution, which begat the utopian tradition, was predicated on the assumption that humanity unshackled from superstition and guided by pure reason would enter a new epoch of Enlightenment.
—Noah Rothman, National Review, 28 Mar. 2024
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Adam Feuerstein, STAT, 21 June 2024
Trump pulled out of the Iran nuclear deal despite Iranian compliance, unshackling the country’s nuclear program, escalating a proxy war across the Middle East, and sowing doubt across the world about whether the United States keeps its word.
—Ben Rhodes, Foreign Affairs, 18 June 2024
In their quest to unshackle mind from body, the philosopher-kings needed somewhere to trace their disgusting, desirous urges back to, a vessel for shame and blame.
—Molly Fischer, The New Yorker, 24 Apr. 2024
France’s revolution, which begat the utopian tradition, was predicated on the assumption that humanity unshackled from superstition and guided by pure reason would enter a new epoch of Enlightenment.
—Noah Rothman, National Review, 28 Mar. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unshackle
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Lacking the self-conscious grimness of Arrow that initially kept it away from four-color adventures, The Flash was immediately liberated to go full comic book, kickstarting the small-screen answer to the MCU.Joshua Rivera, Vulture, 13 Nov. 2024
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When the Russians came in to liberate it, the Nazis didn’t have enough time to burn everything down.Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 31 Oct. 2024
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Trump has insisted his tariffs would create jobs at home and emancipate the U.S. from being at the mercy of foreign manufacturing.Eric Cortellessa, TIME, 5 Nov. 2024
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Additionally, a few months before this vote, the War Department had opened enlistment to the enslaved Americans in the state, and emancipated those who did so.Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 3 Nov. 2024
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When Henson refused to unchain herself from the fence, California Highway Patrol arrested her.Kate Talerico, The Mercury News, 7 Aug. 2024
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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
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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.Nikk Ogasa, Scientific American, 22 Sep. 2021
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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.New York Times, New York Times, 8 July 2022
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Events unmoor themselves from context.Elizabeth Nelson, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2021
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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
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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
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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 Nov. 2024.
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