unshackling

Example Sentences

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But Kapur and Graft’s story — and by extension the story of Auroville — isn’t one of escape, of unshackling themselves from the clutches of a toxic cult for the safety of the real world.

From New York Times • Jul. 15, 2021

It was a new kind of freedom, the unshackling of his mind.

From Washington Post • Apr. 23, 2019

Coming from a country where too many people were reconciled to their fate from too early an age, the animating force of the American Dream was not just seductive but unshackling.

From BBC • Nov. 2, 2017

Unstrapping it from my wrist kind of felt like unshackling a handcuff. 

From Slate • Jun. 15, 2015

In this letter, so doubly, so explicitly deliberate, he is defending his decree for unshackling the slave, by the plea, that only so could the Union be preserved.

From Abraham Lincoln's Cardinal Traits; A Study in Ethics, with an Epilogue Addressed to Theologians by Beardslee, Clark S.