shackles

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However, Allen, who is attempting to become the first player from Northern Ireland to reach the final since Dennis Taylor in 1985, showed he had also thrown off the shackles of negativity.

From BBC • May 2, 2026

He was paraded through Heathrow Airport with his wrists in shackles, and escorted onto a plane by two FBI agents.

From Slate • Apr. 19, 2026

In film and television, book clubs are portrayed as a way for women to briefly free themselves from the shackles of domestic responsibility, sticky children, feckless husbands.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 2026

The findings suggest that this rule effectively "shackles evolution," because no species studied so far has managed to escape the limits it places on how temperature influences biological performance.

From Science Daily • Mar. 12, 2026

I throwed my hands up and said, “Sir, I ain’t looking to chain no one. I wants to know how much you gonna charge me to take their shackles offen ’em?”

From "The Journey of Little Charlie" by Christopher Paul Curtis