- present participle of unshackle.
unshackling
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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
Her new book, “You Got Anything Stronger?,” continues the project of unshackling.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 16, 2021
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
Alexa then tells users that one of the bots will take over, unshackling the voice aide’s normal constraints.
From Reuters ● Dec. 21, 2018
What say you to getting the anchors aboard and unshackling the cables, eh?
From The White Squall A Story of the Sargasso Sea by J. Schonberg
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