unmoor

Example Sentences

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That attitude, however, tends to unmoor people from even basic morality.

From Salon • May 7, 2024

Some officials worry premature easing, if followed by another round of accelerating inflation and then a hike in rates, could hurt public confidence and unmoor inflation expectations.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 12, 2024

Avoiding what he calls “animation effects” as much as possible — hallucinatory visuals that can unmoor the viewer from the reality of the film — he conveys the experience of climbing: the vertigo, the lethality.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 1, 2021

We are learning new things about a novel virus by the day, so it’s disingenuous to pull these statements out of their larger contexts and unmoor them from their timestamps.

From Slate • Jul. 15, 2020

Specht was waiting to unmoor the ship, and the look on his face was equally terrified.

From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo