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

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

He spent hours huddling with Sen. Mike Lee of Utah and Kendra Unruh, a Colorado delegate who drove the effort to unbind delegates and thwart Mr. Trump.

From Washington Times ● Jul. 14, 2016

Taran sat up and began as best he could to unbind his legs.

From "The Black Cauldron" by Lloyd Alexander

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

When Mua heard him offer thus his hand, She then unbinds him,—thoughtful now doth stand.

From Babylonian and Assyrian Literature by Anonymous

Hercules then unbinds Prometheus who repairs to a certain exquisite interlunar cave and there dwells in tranquillity with his beloved Asia.

From The English Novel And the Principle of its Development by Sidney Lanier

But when his hapless sister knew afar the whistling wings of the Fury, Juturna unbinds and tears her tresses, with rent face and smitten bosom.

From The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil

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

Director Fastvold portrays Ann Lee as a proto-feminist visionary, a woman determined to be unbound by anything except her own will.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2025

“The Brutalist” is a film, in part, about the perils of unbound creativity, but Corbet manages to prove his own film wrong by assembling the most monumental achievement of any of the five nominees.

From Salon ● Feb. 28, 2025

Quietly, another soldier entered with a small torch, unbound her hands, and offered her a cake.

From "When the Sea Turned to Silver" by Grace Lin

"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

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

To the "unbinding" campaigners, the reluctance of the key 112 delegates to discuss this may simply mean they're holding their cards.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 9, 2016

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