How to Use unfettered in a Sentence

unfettered

adjective
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  • 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.
    — Michael Paterniti Kiese Makeba Laymon Carina Del Valle Schorske Dessa Irina Aleksander Sam Dolnick Mark Binelli Maggie Jones Rob Hoerburger Jamie Lauren Keiles Devin Gordon Jazmine Hughes Jenna Wortham Jade Chang Taffy Brodesser-Akner Kaitlyn Greenidge Reginald Dwayne Betts Rowan Ricardo Phillips Wesley Morris Ismail Muhammad Anthony Giardina, New York Times, 24 Dec. 2020
  • 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
  • And those meals may play out better if kids don’t have unfettered access to snacks.
    — Tamar Haspel, Washington Post, 23 Dec. 2019
  • Oh, and what with the tongue-in-cheek posing for the cameras during their show, that fashion needs to get back to some unfettered joy and fun.
    — Mark Holgate, Vogue, 16 Feb. 2019
  • 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
  • The ball itself was a sight to behold, like stepping into the unfettered brain of Frida Kahlo.
    — Zachary Schwartz, Vogue, 17 Apr. 2019
  • 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
  • As ever, Britain’s unfettered access to Iran’s oil was premised on the threat of state violence.
    — Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 6 June 2020
  • 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
  • Full-tilt, dressed-to-the-hilt, one-of-a-kind, feisty, fiery, unfettered fabulosity!
    — Harper's Bazaar Staff, Harper's BAZAAR, 7 Sep. 2019
  • 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
  • Inside the exam hall, a big room with long windows, full of quiet, Gabriel felt unfettered.
    — Daisy Hildyard, The New Yorker, 15 Dec. 2024
  • This is about the American people's right to vote, unfettered.
    — Trish Turner and Allison Pecorin, ABC News, 22 June 2021
  • What does Musk gain from such unfettered access to so much government data?
    — Ben Berkowitz, Axios, 24 Jan. 2025
  • Overall, unfettered birthright citizenship is mainly found among countries in the Americas, many of which — including the U.S. — have lengthy histories of immigration from other parts of the globe.
    — Geoffrey Skelley, ABC News, 23 Jan. 2025

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