unbind
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Once released, the acetylcholine stays in the cleft and can continually bind and unbind to postsynaptic receptors.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
Reince Priebus, then the chairman of the R.N.C., held long meetings with Mr. Cuccinelli and Rules Committee members who were seeking to unbind delegates.
From New York Times ● Sep. 27, 2021
At higher temperatures, these vortices unbind and move away from each other, and are eventually destroyed by the system’s entropy.
From Nature ● May 1, 2019
He spent hours huddling with Sen. Mike Lee of Utah and Kendra Unruh, a Colorado delegate who drove the effort to unbind delegates and thwart Mr. Trump.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 14, 2016
Abashed at my appearance, I quickly unbind my skirts so they fold about my legs, hiding my muddy feet.
From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein
The group wants delegates to return to the floor once their state reaches the round of balloting that formally unbinds them to do whatever they want.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 13, 2016
Meyer unbinds the captive, and the huge fish and I are floating free in the crystalline blue water.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is evident to me that she must fall unless she unbinds these chains of mine.'
From The Infernal Marriage by Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield
With that swathing band which death unbinds I go upward, and I came hither through the infernal anguish.
From Divine Comedy, Norton's Translation, Purgatory by Charles Eliot Norton
But when his hapless sister knew afar the whistling wings of the Fury, Juturna unbinds and tears her tresses, with rent face and smitten bosom.
From The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil
"If the orbital speed of the binaries is less than the kick speed, the wide binaries will become gravitationally unbound," Fuller explains.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 21, 2026
There are copious cognitive benefits and endless possibilities for where their imaginations can run, unbound by the limiting confines of a tablet.
From Salon ● Jun. 21, 2026
Clemency is a plea, unbound by the structure and procedural limitations of the law.
From Slate ● Mar. 6, 2026
His scores, with their inherent rigor and overt religiosity, seemingly simple structure and patient exposition, conjure a world both foundational and unbound.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2025
He was slim and stylish with very long black hair that fell unbound over the shoulders of his Levi jacket.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
"It was different than the usual encounters I have with my Palestinian artist friends; there was this unbinding connection, because we don't know if we're going to see each other" again, he said.
From Barron's ● Feb. 21, 2026
As part of their bids, the companies had also submitted unbinding offers to build three more nuclear reactors.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 31, 2024
The economies of the two nations are deeply enmeshed at this point, and unbinding them will be painful—especially for industries like agriculture, for which trade with China has been a boon.
From Slate ● Apr. 4, 2018
If they succeed, an unbinding proposal will be presented to the full convention for a vote.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 13, 2016
“We have to get out of here. Help me with the unbinding spell, but be super careful you don’t do it to your leg by accident.”
From "Witchlings" by Claribel A. Ortega
