unchain
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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
I want to buy scuba gear, unchain you and let you be all you can be.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 24, 2013
As if I needed someone else to unchain me.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 13, 2012
“We’ll get back your eagle and unchain this god...”
From "The Son of Neptune" by Rick Riordan
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“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
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He was the rubber-limbed, unchained id of “Seinfeld,” the most popular sitcom of its era and a cultural phenomenon cultish in its fervor but too massive to really be considered a cult.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 26, 2024
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
The shape of the lights unchained in the chop of the dark water.
From New York Times ● Oct. 14, 2022
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
It was about six inches lower than the cart, so I unchained the tailgate and used it as a gangplank.
From "Z for Zachariah" by Robert C. O’Brien
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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
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I sneaked up to my spy position on the landing in time for Dad unchaining the door.
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
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With his huge beak and tremendous black claws, no one dared think of unchaining him from his perch.
From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly
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