- present tense form of shackle (3rd person singular).
shackles
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Within a day, Sanchez was on a deportation flight back to Havana in shackles with no recourse to appeal.
From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026
Put into shackles and forced to labor in the limestone quarries of Syracuse, the captive characters speak in a working-class Dublin dialect.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
"Whether they are girls or boys, I hope they can break free from the shackles of gender and do what they truly want to do."
From Barron's ● Jul. 8, 2026
On June 24, Serrano was put on a plane in shackles and flown from Miami to Caracas.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 2026
Occasionally, one member of a double-star system explodes, breaking the gravitational shackles that bound its companion, which then leaps into space at its former orbital velocity, a slingshot in the sky.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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