unshackle

She wants to unshackle a defense industry that is stunted, as she sees it, by heavy restrictions on what it can sell overseas.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 28, 2026

That should unshackle an “asphyxiated” economy, says Alejo Czerwonko, chief investment officer for emerging markets Americas at UBS Global Wealth Management.

From Barron's ● Feb. 12, 2026

On Monday, Sir Keir wrote to civil servants to promise reforms that would unshackle them from bureaucracy and stop their talent being "constrained".

From BBC ● Mar. 11, 2025

She began in the 1930s as a Surrealist mining the mysteries of human memory, but these exceptional abstract paintings fully unshackle imagination.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2024

If she could persuade him to unshackle her, a dark night like this was made for running.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead

"We believe that now is the time to create a system that is fair and that unshackles millions of graduates from mountains of student loan debt," he said.

From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026

In the next room, Connie Samaras’ serendipitous landscape photograph unshackles whatever might be meant by being grounded.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2025

When the group does push into new territory — or more accurately, unshackles itself from familiar ground — it doesn’t leave much of an impact.

From New York Times ● Sep. 22, 2022

“When you turn your attention to those who have blessed you, it unshackles the toxic emotions we sometimes get mired in.”

From Washington Post ● May 29, 2022

Your prayer unshackles him and we will do no more than banish him from Paris.

From If I Were King by Justin McCarthy

It also possibly creates a newly unshackled competitor in global oil markets, with analysts predicting that the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz could lead to a glut of oil next year.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 18, 2026

Following the Staggers Rail Act of 1980, the United States unshackled its railroads, allowing private operators to compete, set market-driven rates and dynamically reinvest in their own infrastructure.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 9, 2026

Streeting, now a backbencher, is unshackled from the obligations of front bench collective responsibility for the first time in years.

From BBC ● May 19, 2026

“Scientific ingenuity, unshackled by overly burdensome regulations, provides solutions like carbon capture and storage technology that removes carbon dioxide from the atmosphere,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2024

Had her arms been unshackled, she would have crossed them.

From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas

For the writer-director, the movie represented a kind of unshackling from the obligations that had governed some of his past work.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

At first Max did pretty well in unshackling himself from the scandalous name.

From Slate ● Oct. 20, 2020

Brands offers a detailed, almost minute-by-minute account of Brown’s raid, which he rates a “wretched fiasco,” a “quixotic venture” that, far from unshackling the enslaved, tightened their shackles even further.

From New York Times ● Oct. 6, 2020

It was a new kind of freedom, the unshackling of his mind.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 23, 2019

Its unshackling effect on my sensory bonds will free me for higher spheres.

From Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda