unstrung

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That is not to say it’s historically unstrung along the lines of “The Great” or “Bridgerton” or Sofia Coppola’s “Marie Antoinette”; generally speaking, it stays put within its period.

From Los Angeles Times

We’ll leave our gloves, with their humble histories, just as they are, somewhat unstrung by time and use, like us.

From Washington Post

Repopulated with Latino characters, unstrung by fates like the Greeks before them, Alfaro’s works explore themes of violence, liberation and belonging.

From New York Times

Across the country, Sokolow and students like him are looking beyond this fall — and beyond the academic year — to a changing and uncertain future for the performing arts, an industry unstrung by social distancing.

From Washington Post

Upon the possibility of hope one always tastes the possibility of sorrow: the violin looked like my cliched concept of a refugee, silent, unstrung.

From The Guardian