unshackle
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She wants to unshackle a defense industry that is stunted, as she sees it, by heavy restrictions on what it can sell overseas.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 28, 2026
That should unshackle an “asphyxiated” economy, says Alejo Czerwonko, chief investment officer for emerging markets Americas at UBS Global Wealth Management.
From Barron's ● Feb. 12, 2026
"He's been brought up as a young player in a very toxic male environment and you can imagine that he wants to unshackle himself, giving players their voice."
From BBC ● Jun. 8, 2023
"Yes, I bake really well, and people enjoy it, but I really think I was pushed to do these things so I can liberate minds and unshackle us from our societal norms," he said.
From Salon ● May 1, 2023
And I felt in this a cosmic injustice, a profound cruelty, which infused an abiding, irrepressible desire to unshackle my body and achieve the velocity of escape.
From "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates
"We believe that now is the time to create a system that is fair and that unshackles millions of graduates from mountains of student loan debt," he said.
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026
In the next room, Connie Samaras’ serendipitous landscape photograph unshackles whatever might be meant by being grounded.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2025
When the group does push into new territory — or more accurately, unshackles itself from familiar ground — it doesn’t leave much of an impact.
From New York Times ● Sep. 22, 2022
“When you turn your attention to those who have blessed you, it unshackles the toxic emotions we sometimes get mired in.”
From Washington Post ● May 29, 2022
Nothing is graver than freedom; liberty has burdens of her own, and lays on the conscience all the chains which she unshackles from the limbs.
From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 10 — Lives and Letters by Arthur Mee
Being unshackled from OPEC’s production quotas and tapping associated gas while drilling for oil removes a major constraint to its ambition, the analyst adds.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
Factory workers, farmers, gold diggers, frontiersmen flocked to the US with the belief that they could create a new identity - an "American" - unshackled from the class systems of Europe.
From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026
Following the Staggers Rail Act of 1980, the United States unshackled its railroads, allowing private operators to compete, set market-driven rates and dynamically reinvest in their own infrastructure.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 9, 2026
For the first time, I feel unshackled from the expectations of waiting.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2025
I felt lighter, unshackled, as if something I had been carrying had fallen away.
From "Stargirl" by Jerry Spinelli
As the U.S. celebrates its 250th anniversary, its national soccer team has spent this summer unshackling itself from its own stunted history.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026
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
Turning off the buzzing breaking-news machine I carry in my pocket was like unshackling myself from a monster who had me on speed dial, always ready to break into my day with half-baked bulletins.
From New York Times ● Mar. 7, 2018
Its unshackling effect on my sensory bonds will free me for higher spheres.
From Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda
