unstrung

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By the time Gilgamesh sets out in search of immortality, he is already unstrung.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026

He also wore a fur pelt around his neck and carried an unstrung wooden archery bow.

From Washington Times • Jul. 13, 2023

That is not to say it’s historically unstrung along the lines of “The Great” or “Bridgerton” or Sofia Coppola’s “Marie Antoinette”; generally speaking, it stays put within its period.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 30, 2021

We’ll leave our gloves, with their humble histories, just as they are, somewhat unstrung by time and use, like us.

From Washington Post • Jun. 30, 2021

The passages were clogged with troops: armored knights in woolen surcoats and fur cloaks, men-at-arms with spears across their shoulders, archers carrying unstrung bows and sheaves of arrows, freeriders, grooms leading warhorses.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin