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"These cuts and reductions untie perpetrators' hands everywhere, leaving them to do whatever they please. With crises mounting, we cannot afford a human rights system in crisis," he added.

From Barron's ● Feb. 5, 2026

As a gesture of true camaraderie, they grin and untie their own blue pañuelos and tie these kerchiefs around our necks.

From Salon ● Nov. 8, 2025

TSA has often been a crapshoot, risking pileups as travelers pulled laptops from carry-ons and novice vacationers struggled to untie their sneakers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2025

"The person who tied the bell must untie it," he added.

From BBC ● Apr. 24, 2025

Bedbugs and kwalikwata crawled; women would untie their wrappers to reveal an ugly rash of reddened bites around their waists, like hives steeped in blood.

From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Under Mr. Cullman’s incisive direction the entire cast unties the emotional knots of the characters with impressive dexterity.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 7, 2026

On her deathbed, she finally unties the ribbon.

From Salon ● Aug. 24, 2022

QUANTICO, Va. — Curator Owen L. Conner carefully unties the ribbon around the weathered slats and removes the storage paper.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 18, 2021

Binoche, dancing in front of an air vent, unties a long, thick braid and shakes her black hair loose.

From The New Yorker ● Apr. 5, 2019

Bailey unties the bows and slips out of the tent easily, finding himself in a winding path between tents.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern

But two years after the Supreme Court untied their hands, Grants Pass has not solved homelessness, and things have gone from bad to worse.

From Slate ● Jun. 27, 2026

After a short bus ride, the group boarded a naval vessel in the Bay of Bengal, which Mr Noor said they only realised later once their hands had been untied and their faces uncovered.

From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2025

She and Melissa take it out, and then they realize they have to put it back in so he doesn't know that they're untied.

From Salon ● May 1, 2025

In a scene captured by The Washington Post in 1981, she untied the strings of the small pouch and removed the Tony.

From New York Times ● Feb. 5, 2024

Once we were inside, Bertha locked the screen door and I untied the rope.

From "Wish" by Barbara O'Connor

Mother and daughter enacted a meditative, loose exchange, taking turns carefully tying and untying each other for nearly two hours with the jute rope that is traditionally used in their family’s region of Guadalajara.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2023

Kris Siyuja, 14, took seriously his duties over the two days of events, which included untying bundles of sage, carrying a staff and tapping a drum that he said would amplify Havasupai voices.

From Seattle Times ● May 11, 2023

But those surveyed by Pew also acknowledged that untying their countries and themselves from China was "not a pragmatic goal" from an economic standpoint.

From BBC ● Mar. 22, 2023

"We're untying our own hands with the update on unfair and deceptive practices," he said.

From Reuters ● Sep. 7, 2022

A score of builders set to clearing brush, digging latrines, and untying their bundles of fire-hardened stakes.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin