trammels

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Mankind advances by tossing aside the trammels of yesteryear, be they religious or monetary.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 12, 2025

The Supreme Court has not confronted questions about whether the law’s wording or application trammels First Amendment rights.

From New York Times • May 22, 2021

But there remain some bureaucratic trammels that the owners, to their dismay, must face the old-fashioned way.

From New York Times • Jul. 18, 2015

Whatever the economic trammels, the U.S. progressively developed a social mobility, a standard of living and individual freedom that no other society had ever offered.

From Time Magazine Archive

It behoved her sons then to raise their minds above the trammels of the earth--to become Sir Galahads--for was not their task to the full as pious as the mystic quest after the Grail?

From My Lords of Strogue, Vol. I (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Wingfield, Lewis