untie
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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
They told him the weather was too bad and tried to untie his skates.
From BBC ● Jan. 22, 2024
“Na gode. Thank you, Hajia,” Olanna said, wondering how it was possible for people to switch affection off and on, to tie and untie emotions.
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
He says that when he’s trying to solve a problem at work, he takes out the ropes, ties them into knots, unties them, and then ties them again.
From "When You Reach Me" by Rebecca Stead
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
His growing eccentricity, which included untied shoelaces and hair that spiked out in all directions, completed the stock image of a distracted scientist.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 7, 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
Under the glare of fluorescent lights in her lab she slowly untied it, piece by piece, to expose the fabric for the first time in more than three decades.
From BBC ● Jan. 16, 2025
Now Jiichan untied the string and the cloth fell open, revealing half of the geode, all sparkling inside.
From "A Place to Belong" by Cynthia Kadohata
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
"We're untying our own hands with the update on unfair and deceptive practices," he said.
From Reuters ● Sep. 7, 2022
"I awoke from dreams of untying a great knot," sings Zauner on the opening track, Paprika.
From BBC ● Dec. 22, 2021
Groff’s dialogue, tying and untying ideological knots as she sketches their positions, keeps what could be leaden exposition bubbling.
From New York Times ● May 13, 2021
He was untying the empty sheath from my ankle.
From "Kindred" by Octavia Butler
