unshackling

Example Sentences

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Brands offers a detailed, almost minute-by-minute account of Brown’s raid, which he rates a “wretched fiasco,” a “quixotic venture” that, far from unshackling the enslaved, tightened their shackles even further.

From New York Times • Oct. 6, 2020

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

From Washington Post • Apr. 23, 2019

Alexa then tells users that one of the bots will take over, unshackling the voice aide’s normal constraints.

From Reuters • Dec. 21, 2018

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

We hove in upon our chain, and after stoppering and unshackling it again and again, and hoisting and hauling down sail, we at length tipped our anchor and stood out to sea.

From Two Years Before the Mast by Dana, Richard Henry