unbind
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I am trying to unbind the knots of power that still have effects in the present.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 8, 2022
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
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
DISSIMULATION, standing behind FRAUD, unbinds him, and while all the rest behold SIMPLICITY, they two slip away; PLEASURE, missing FRAUD, saith— PLEASURE.
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 6 by William Carew Hazlitt
It unbinds the chains of the captive soul and permits it to take its flight.
From The World's Great Sermons, Volume 10 Drummond to Jowett, and General Index by Grenville Kleiser
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
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
But once he releases his delegates, they would be unbound by his wishes, meaning any number of candidates can try to win a majority of more than 4,500 voting party delegates.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2024
I rush upstairs, soaked through and shivering, to find the Commandant pacing her room with a violent energy, her blonde tresses unbound.
From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir
"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
“Vanessa has this unbinding, positive outlook on life,” Mr. Gynd said.
From New York Times ● Mar. 9, 2019
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
“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
