untether

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Recent Examples of untether Jafferis hopes to untether it by installing a power source on the craft itself. Steve Nadis, Discover Magazine, 28 May 2012 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 Many want to untether their careers from their identities. Lindsay Ellis and Angela Yang, WSJ, 12 Aug. 2022 See All Example Sentences for untether
Recent Examples of Synonyms for untether
Verb
  • Several types of operations are required to make the kind of knot that represents 0, untie it and tie it into a knot that represents 1, or create a quantum superposition of the two.
    IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 19 Mar. 2025
  • Tina untied the tourniquet on Lilian’s arm and left with the tray of tubes.
    Yiyun Li, The New Yorker, 9 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • Some thunderstorms turned severe and unleashed damaging winds as the rain came gushing down Thursday.
    Karina Tsui, CNN Money, 28 Mar. 2025
  • However, the temptation of being able to unleash his power without check proves too much for him.
    Paul Du Quenoy, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • But for Buddhists, dying is an opportunity to unbind from the past and start again.
    Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 16 Mar. 2025
  • 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
Verb
  • Grant, meanwhile, wore a simple black suit and a white button-up shirt with the first few buttons unfastened in a boyish manner.
    Raven Brunner, People.com, 29 Jan. 2025
  • Ayoola attempted to put his fingers between his neck and the seatbelt, and was unable to unfasten his seatbelt.
    Landon Mion, Fox News, 8 Sep. 2024

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“Untether.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/untether. Accessed 3 Apr. 2025.

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