unshackle
Example Sentences
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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
She began in the 1930s as a Surrealist mining the mysteries of human memory, but these exceptional abstract paintings fully unshackle imagination.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 29, 2024
"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
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