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

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

"He's been brought up as a young player in a very toxic male environment and you can imagine that he wants to unshackle himself, giving players their voice."

From BBC ● Jun. 8, 2023

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

Nothing is graver than freedom; liberty has burdens of her own, and lays on the conscience all the chains which she unshackles from the limbs.

From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 10 — Lives and Letters by Arthur Mee

Factory workers, farmers, gold diggers, frontiersmen flocked to the US with the belief that they could create a new identity - an "American" - unshackled from the class systems of Europe.

From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026

But Twain’s greatest discovery was his gloriously unshackled literary style, which was inspired by local dialects and liberated from European refinements.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 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

For the first time, I feel unshackled from the expectations of waiting.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2025

I see Master Clovell glaring at us, and I wonder how long Captain Smith will remain unshackled if he keeps talking this way about the gentlemen.

From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone

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

NF has always rapped as if full of anxiety, and on a core level, that hasn’t changed on “Motto,” a clever narrative about unshackling oneself from the stressors of pop music success.

From New York Times ● Mar. 10, 2023

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

From Washington Post ● Apr. 23, 2019

Alexa then tells users that one of the bots will take over, unshackling the voice aide’s normal constraints.

From Reuters ● Dec. 21, 2018

We hove in upon our chain, and after stoppering and unshackling it again and again, and hoisting and hauling down sail, we at length tipped our anchor and stood out to sea.

From Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana