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unbind

[uhn-bahynd] / ʌnˈbaɪnd /


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I am trying to unbind the knots of power that still have effects in the present.

From Washington Post Jul. 8, 2022

Once released, the acetylcholine stays in the cleft and can continually bind and unbind to postsynaptic receptors.

From Textbooks Jun. 9, 2022

Reince Priebus, then the chairman of the R.N.C., held long meetings with Mr. Cuccinelli and Rules Committee members who were seeking to unbind delegates.

From New York Times Sep. 27, 2021

At higher temperatures, these vortices unbind and move away from each other, and are eventually destroyed by the system’s entropy.

From Nature May 1, 2019

Abashed at my appearance, I quickly unbind my skirts so they fold about my legs, hiding my muddy feet.

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein

The group wants delegates to return to the floor once their state reaches the round of balloting that formally unbinds them to do whatever they want.

From Washington Post Jul. 13, 2016

Meyer unbinds the captive, and the huge fish and I are floating free in the crystalline blue water.

From Time Magazine Archive

DISSIMULATION, standing behind FRAUD, unbinds him, and while all the rest behold SIMPLICITY, they two slip away; PLEASURE, missing FRAUD, saith— PLEASURE.

From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 6 by Hazlitt, William Carew

But when his hapless sister knew afar the whistling wings of the Fury, Juturna unbinds and tears her tresses, with rent face and smitten bosom.

From The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil

Hercules then unbinds Prometheus who repairs to a certain exquisite interlunar cave and there dwells in tranquillity with his beloved Asia.

From The English Novel And the Principle of its Development by Lanier, Sidney

There are copious cognitive benefits and endless possibilities for where their imaginations can run, unbound by the limiting confines of a tablet.

From Salon Jun. 21, 2026

Clemency is a plea, unbound by the structure and procedural limitations of the law.

From Slate Mar. 6, 2026

His scores, with their inherent rigor and overt religiosity, seemingly simple structure and patient exposition, conjure a world both foundational and unbound.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 27, 2025

Director Fastvold portrays Ann Lee as a proto-feminist visionary, a woman determined to be unbound by anything except her own will.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 12, 2025

Quietly, another soldier entered with a small torch, unbound her hands, and offered her a cake.

From "When the Sea Turned to Silver" by Grace Lin

"It was different than the usual encounters I have with my Palestinian artist friends; there was this unbinding connection, because we don't know if we're going to see each other" again, he said.

From Barron's Feb. 21, 2026

As part of their bids, the companies had also submitted unbinding offers to build three more nuclear reactors.

From Seattle Times Jan. 31, 2024

The economies of the two nations are deeply enmeshed at this point, and unbinding them will be painful—especially for industries like agriculture, for which trade with China has been a boon.

From Slate Apr. 4, 2018

If they succeed, an unbinding proposal will be presented to the full convention for a vote.

From Washington Post Jul. 13, 2016

The unbinding of one molecule of oxygen coordinately relaxes all the other clasps, like the crucial pin-piece pulled out from a child’s puzzle.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee




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