unfettered

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The ride-along, the suits allege, allowed the officer unfettered and unsupervised contact with the Explorer away from any accountability for many hours at a time, and often late into the evening.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 18, 2026

Altman said in a note to staff that he had the same "red lines" as Anthropic boss Dario Amodei, who has refused to give the Pentagon unfettered access to the firm's AI tools.

From BBC • Feb. 27, 2026

“It’s not just like unfettered mass surveillance,” Siminoff told the New York Times.

From Salon • Feb. 20, 2026

China in 2015 updated its national-security law to include defending national interests in polar regions, seeking unfettered access to new sea lanes and resources, said Ryan Martinson, an associate professor at the U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 30, 2025

It was hard sometimes not to wish those days were back because there seemed something so old-fashioned, so wholesome, so simple and unfettered about them.

From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger