unshackled
Example Sentences
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Streeting, now a backbencher, is unshackled from the obligations of front bench collective responsibility for the first time in years.
From BBC • May 19, 2026
As Weibo’s popularity exploded in 2010, the internet seemed like “a third space unshackled by the rules that bound the rest of the nation’s institutions.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 6, 2026
For the first time, I feel unshackled from the expectations of waiting.”
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 30, 2025
“We are asking to be in the room with him unshackled as we were for four and a half years,” Commander Piette said.
From New York Times • Apr. 2, 2024
I felt lighter, unshackled, as if something I had been carrying had fallen away.
From "Stargirl" by Jerry Spinelli
