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unmoor

verb as in weigh anchor

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During the pandemic, their previous space, TV Bar in Berlin, was shuttered, leaving them suddenly unmoored.

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If that trend continues, therapy will cede its purpose to algorithms and leave patients unmoored from reality.

He was among two dozen longtime DSA members who signed a November 2023 open letter in the New Republic announcing their departure because the organization had “become completely unmoored.”

It’s a decision that was partly spiritual: when the world feels unmoored, it seemed perhaps worth remembering that our predecessors relied on the seasons as enveloping promises of change.

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It was March 2020, and she and her husband had been trying for a second child, but suffered a miscarriage that had unmoored them.

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