as in free
no longer burdened with something unpleasant or painful
now unburdened of his painful secret, he felt free for the first time in years
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as in unloaded
to empty or rid of cargo
the crew was frantically unburdening the ship in an attempt to save it
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as in relieved
to set (a person or thing) free of something that encumbers
a generous friend unburdened her of that particular financial worry
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Recent Examples of unburdened
Allison Morrow, CNN Money, 8 Apr. 2025
In contrast, other central banks, who are unburdened by any sense of conflict of interest with Trump, can feel much more free to cut rates into a coming recession, as the ECB did on Thursday.
—Mike O'Sullivan, Forbes.com, 17 Apr. 2025
Burt and Irving’s apparent farewell conversation touches on one of the rare benefits of severance, where a fundamentally bad person like Burt was able to let an innocent part of himself enjoy a brief period of unburdened happiness.
—Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 14 Mar. 2025
Meanwhile, perhaps unburdened by expectations and a band of superstar individuals on this occasion, PSG appears more complete and will test the Reds’ defense.
—Henry Flynn, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2025
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As The Atlantic’s Jonathan Lemire wrote Monday, rather ominously, Trump is a president emboldened by his comeback and unburdened by a reelection campaign.
—Allison Morrow, CNN Money, 8 Apr. 2025
In contrast, other central banks, who are unburdened by any sense of conflict of interest with Trump, can feel much more free to cut rates into a coming recession, as the ECB did on Thursday.
—Mike O'Sullivan, Forbes.com, 17 Apr. 2025
Burt and Irving’s apparent farewell conversation touches on one of the rare benefits of severance, where a fundamentally bad person like Burt was able to let an innocent part of himself enjoy a brief period of unburdened happiness.
—Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 14 Mar. 2025
Meanwhile, perhaps unburdened by expectations and a band of superstar individuals on this occasion, PSG appears more complete and will test the Reds’ defense.
—Henry Flynn, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unburdened
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27 May 2025
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People.com,
27 May 2025
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Surely, Johnson had to be relieved to be traded by the lowly Carolina Panthers to a team that is a legitimate Super Bowl contender.—
Ryan Morik,
Fox News,
21 Dec. 2024
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They are also relieved that the war, for now, has ended.—
Loubna Mrie,
The Atlantic,
20 Dec. 2024
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In fact, many members of the crew have been involved in repairing the homes of their protagonists; and an all-filmmakers volunteer team has even opened a charitable foundation that raises outside money and brings in materials to rebuild liberated villages.—
Lauren Wissot,
IndieWire,
21 May 2025
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The effect, which spoke to a different part of my brain than is usually accessed in the theater, communicated something profound about gender politics — and not in intellectual abstractions but in the liberated movement of defiant bodies and souls.—
Charles McNulty,
Los Angeles Times,
21 May 2025
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But she’s also been freed in a way.—
Yvonne Villarreal,
Los Angeles Times,
11 Apr. 2025
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The Kremlin on Thursday freed Ksenia Karelina, a Russian-American ballerina sentenced to 12 years in prison for donating to a Ukrainian charity, in exchange for a man accused of funneling military-grade electronics from the United States to Russia’s armed forces.—
Jessica Schladebeck,
New York Daily News,
10 Apr. 2025
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