unshackle
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She wants to unshackle a defense industry that is stunted, as she sees it, by heavy restrictions on what it can sell overseas.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 28, 2026
That should unshackle an “asphyxiated” economy, says Alejo Czerwonko, chief investment officer for emerging markets Americas at UBS Global Wealth Management.
From Barron's ● Feb. 12, 2026
She began in the 1930s as a Surrealist mining the mysteries of human memory, but these exceptional abstract paintings fully unshackle imagination.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2024
"He's been brought up as a young player in a very toxic male environment and you can imagine that he wants to unshackle himself, giving players their voice."
From BBC ● Jun. 8, 2023
If she could persuade him to unshackle her, a dark night like this was made for running.
From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead
"We believe that now is the time to create a system that is fair and that unshackles millions of graduates from mountains of student loan debt," he said.
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026
In the next room, Connie Samaras’ serendipitous landscape photograph unshackles whatever might be meant by being grounded.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2025
When the group does push into new territory — or more accurately, unshackles itself from familiar ground — it doesn’t leave much of an impact.
From New York Times ● Sep. 22, 2022
“When you turn your attention to those who have blessed you, it unshackles the toxic emotions we sometimes get mired in.”
From Washington Post ● May 29, 2022
Nothing is graver than freedom; liberty has burdens of her own, and lays on the conscience all the chains which she unshackles from the limbs.
From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 10 — Lives and Letters by Arthur Mee
Factory workers, farmers, gold diggers, frontiersmen flocked to the US with the belief that they could create a new identity - an "American" - unshackled from the class systems of Europe.
From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026
It also possibly creates a newly unshackled competitor in global oil markets, with analysts predicting that the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz could lead to a glut of oil next year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 18, 2026
Following the Staggers Rail Act of 1980, the United States unshackled its railroads, allowing private operators to compete, set market-driven rates and dynamically reinvest in their own infrastructure.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 9, 2026
“Scientific ingenuity, unshackled by overly burdensome regulations, provides solutions like carbon capture and storage technology that removes carbon dioxide from the atmosphere,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2024
I felt lighter, unshackled, as if something I had been carrying had fallen away.
From "Stargirl" by Jerry Spinelli
As the U.S. celebrates its 250th anniversary, its national soccer team has spent this summer unshackling itself from its own stunted history.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026
NF has always rapped as if full of anxiety, and on a core level, that hasn’t changed on “Motto,” a clever narrative about unshackling oneself from the stressors of pop music success.
From New York Times ● Mar. 10, 2023
At first Max did pretty well in unshackling himself from the scandalous name.
From Slate ● Oct. 20, 2020
It was a new kind of freedom, the unshackling of his mind.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 23, 2019
What say you to getting the anchors aboard and unshackling the cables, eh?
From The White Squall A Story of the Sargasso Sea by J. Schonberg
