unshackle
Example Sentences
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She wants to unshackle a defense industry that is stunted, as she sees it, by heavy restrictions on what it can sell overseas.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 28, 2026
That should unshackle an “asphyxiated” economy, says Alejo Czerwonko, chief investment officer for emerging markets Americas at UBS Global Wealth Management.
From Barron's • Feb. 12, 2026
On Monday, Sir Keir wrote to civil servants to promise reforms that would unshackle them from bureaucracy and stop their talent being "constrained".
From BBC • Mar. 11, 2025
She began in the 1930s as a Surrealist mining the mysteries of human memory, but these exceptional abstract paintings fully unshackle imagination.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 29, 2024
And I felt in this a cosmic injustice, a profound cruelty, which infused an abiding, irrepressible desire to unshackle my body and achieve the velocity of escape.
From "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
