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

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

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

Abashed at my appearance, I quickly unbind my skirts so they fold about my legs, hiding my muddy feet.

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein

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

It unbinds the chains of the captive soul and permits it to take its flight.

From The World's Great Sermons, Volume 10 Drummond to Jowett, and General Index by Grenville Kleiser

The warmth of my breath unbinds the streams, and they sing the songs of summer.

From Good Stories for Holidays by Frances Jenkins Olcott

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

"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

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

We stood there like junior undertakers while the wind turned Cap’s unbound hair into a reasonable facsimile of a rain forest.

From "Schooled" by Gordon Korman

"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

If they succeed, an unbinding proposal will be presented to the full convention for a vote.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 13, 2016

The controlled binding and unbinding of iron and oxygen—the cyclical rusting and unrusting of blood—allows effective oxygen delivery into tissues.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee