trammels
Example Sentences
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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
Philosophy was freed from the trammels of false systems, and speculated securely and deeply on the divine and human nature.
From The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by Rameur, E.
