as in to liberate
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Recent Examples of unshackle
That tactic was what unlocked Duke’s defense two seasons ago, when Scheyer similarly unshackled a previous 7-footer: Dereck Lively II, now the Dallas Mavericks’ starting center.
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Brendan Marks, The Athletic, 8 Jan. 2025
That calculus explained why Kennedy and Carter joined forces to unshackle the airline industry.
—Paul Matzko / Made By History, TIME, 29 Dec. 2024
Oil is trading near $70 per barrel, and the price could drop further still if Trump follows through on his promises to unshackle U.S. energy production.
—Theodore Bunzel, Foreign Affairs, 9 Dec. 2024
President Trump will work quickly to fix and restore an economy that puts American workers by re-shoring American jobs, lowering inflation, raising real wages, lowering taxes, cutting regulations, and unshackling American energy.
—Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 7 Dec. 2024
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Brendan Marks, The Athletic, 8 Jan. 2025
That calculus explained why Kennedy and Carter joined forces to unshackle the airline industry.
—Paul Matzko / Made By History, TIME, 29 Dec. 2024
Oil is trading near $70 per barrel, and the price could drop further still if Trump follows through on his promises to unshackle U.S. energy production.
—Theodore Bunzel, Foreign Affairs, 9 Dec. 2024
President Trump will work quickly to fix and restore an economy that puts American workers by re-shoring American jobs, lowering inflation, raising real wages, lowering taxes, cutting regulations, and unshackling American energy.
—Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 7 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unshackle
Verb
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There are other storylines besides the sisters’ crusade to liberate that currency from its frozen prison as well.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
14 Feb. 2025
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Trump's announcement came shortly after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told allies that Ukraine cannot liberate all territory occupied by Russian forces and will not be given NATO security protection as part of any peace deal.—
David Brennan,
ABC News,
13 Feb. 2025
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In 2015, at age 17, she was legally emancipated from her mother.—
Andrew Walsh,
EW.com,
22 Dec. 2024
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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
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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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After the Third Reform Act of 1884, six of 10 adult Englishmen were enfranchised.—
Geoffrey Wheatcroft,
New York Times,
18 Jan. 2025
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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
Verb
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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
Verb
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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 Feb. 2025.
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