unbind
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I am trying to unbind the knots of power that still have effects in the present.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 8, 2022
Once released, the acetylcholine stays in the cleft and can continually bind and unbind to postsynaptic receptors.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
Reince Priebus, then the chairman of the R.N.C., held long meetings with Mr. Cuccinelli and Rules Committee members who were seeking to unbind delegates.
From New York Times ● Sep. 27, 2021
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
Then they rested and slept without fear upon the ground; for their guides would not permit them to unbind their eyes, and they could not climb.
From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien
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
DISSIMULATION, standing behind FRAUD, unbinds him, and while all the rest behold SIMPLICITY, they two slip away; PLEASURE, missing FRAUD, saith— PLEASURE.
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 6 by William Carew Hazlitt
Benzayda unbinds Ozmyn, and gives him her sword.
From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 04 by Sir Walter Scott
With that swathing band which death unbinds I go upward, and I came hither through the infernal anguish.
From Divine Comedy, Norton's Translation, Purgatory by Charles Eliot Norton
"If the orbital speed of the binaries is less than the kick speed, the wide binaries will become gravitationally unbound," Fuller explains.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 21, 2026
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
“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
The late-afternoon sunlight warmed her face, and the last balmy breeze of autumn rushed through her unbound hair.
From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas
"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
“This is my thanks for unbinding your curse?”
From "Fablehaven" by Brandon Mull
