unbind

The goal is to “create a situation where no one can unbind their ties,” said Narushige Michishita, a professor of international relations at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies in Tokyo.

From New York Times ● Apr. 7, 2024

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

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

Go for the big bulls while the she unbinds me," and to Bertha Kircher: "Quick!

From Tarzan the Untamed by Edgar Rice Burroughs

And he unbinds it from his side, scabbard and all, and holds it while the urchin gets astride o't and pretends to ride.

From A Brother To Dragons and Other Old-time Tales by Amélie Rives

"If the orbital speed of the binaries is less than the kick speed, the wide binaries will become gravitationally unbound," Fuller explains.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 21, 2026

There are copious cognitive benefits and endless possibilities for where their imaginations can run, unbound by the limiting confines of a tablet.

From Salon ● Jun. 21, 2026

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 suitcases are unlocked and unbound and all the gifts are unearthed, admired, tried on for size.

From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri

"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

The unbinding of one molecule of oxygen coordinately relaxes all the other clasps, like the crucial pin-piece pulled out from a child’s puzzle.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee