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
Taran sat up and began as best he could to unbind his legs.
From "The Black Cauldron" by Lloyd Alexander
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
And now true pity in exchange he finds For his false tears, his tongue his hands unbinds.
From Poetical Works of Edmund Waller and Sir John Denham by Sir John Denham
Hercules then unbinds Prometheus who repairs to a certain exquisite interlunar cave and there dwells in tranquillity with his beloved Asia.
From The English Novel And the Principle of its Development by Sidney Lanier
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
“The Brutalist” is a film, in part, about the perils of unbound creativity, but Corbet manages to prove his own film wrong by assembling the most monumental achievement of any of the five nominees.
From Salon ● Feb. 28, 2025
The trial is the latest in the legal jeopardy, including 91 felony counts, facing a man who sees himself as unbound by convention.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 15, 2024
After a blank, I found that I was lying unbound, on the floor, in the same place, with my head on some one’s knee.
From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
"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
The controlled binding and unbinding of iron and oxygen—the cyclical rusting and unrusting of blood—allows effective oxygen delivery into tissues.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
