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unchain

[uhn-cheyn] / ʌnˈtʃeɪn /














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If California communities are to thrive in a future without more people, we’re going to have to figure out how to unchain ourselves from that idea.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 27, 2025

Wittman also can unchain DeJuan Blair, the free-agent signee who has been shackled to the pine for six consecutive games.

From Washington Times Nov. 24, 2014

And anyway, it's the same Leroy Fer who bought his girlfriend a £22,000 horse, but then had to unchain Django and sell him as she lived in a block of flats!

From The Guardian Jan. 28, 2013

I want to buy scuba gear, unchain you and let you be all you can be.

From Washington Post Jan. 24, 2013

“We’ll get back your eagle and unchain this god...”

From "The Son of Neptune" by Rick Riordan

“I started to realize that Afrofuturism is the vessel that I can tell this story because it really unchains the mind,” Hughley says.

From Washington Post Oct. 18, 2022

The Tahitian Guesthouse experience — like Airbnb, but with hosts who cook — unchains visitors from expensive hotels and offers a more authentic Polynesian experience.

From New York Times Jan. 8, 2019

So I’ve adopted another technique that I think works just as well but unchains me from the grill: using indirect heat.

From New York Times Sep. 11, 2015

"Why can't they cut jobs at the top rather than the bottom?" he mutters as he unchains the loungers.

From BBC Jun. 30, 2013

The guard unchains the gate and gestures for me to come inside.

From "Like Vanessa" by Tami Charles

It's everything Logan wanted for ATN, and all we should have expected of an unchained slime puppy who should never caught us off guard.

From Salon May 20, 2023

Van Gogh had unchained it from its age-old funereal associations and reinvented it as a tour de force of emotional connection and nurturance.

From New York Times May 11, 2023

And of all the miscalculations in this morass of unchained melodies and extravagantly, often enjoyably undisciplined filmmaking, none is more mystifying than the decision to tell Elvis’ story from the perspective of Col.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 24, 2023

He concluded: "Luhrmann has made a woefully imperfect but at times arresting drama that builds to something moving and true. By the end, the film's melody has been unchained."

From BBC May 26, 2022

And though I miss my cousin, I’m happy that he can live his life unchained.

From "Like Vanessa" by Tami Charles

Maybe the real trick to unchaining ourselves from the clutches of Big Tech is to free ourselves from our attachment to our digital things.

From Slate Dec. 26, 2023

We'll bear that in mind in the unlikely event of the Guardian's cellarmaster unchaining us.

From The Guardian Feb. 18, 2011

The amendments were in fact made upon petition by Mutual Broadcasting System, the fast-growing cooperative network which stands to lose nothing by an unchaining of small stations.

From Time Magazine Archive

I sneaked up to my spy position on the landing in time for Dad unchaining the door.

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell

At the road, unchaining my bike, I hear banging.

From "Wayward Creatures" by Dayna Lorentz




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