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

"Yes, I bake really well, and people enjoy it, but I really think I was pushed to do these things so I can liberate minds and unshackle us from our societal norms," he said.

From Salon ● May 1, 2023

And he fathered Virginia Woolf, who would go on to unshackle the written word from the constraints of time.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 25, 2023

And I felt in this a cosmic injustice, a profound cruelty, which infused an abiding, irrepressible desire to unshackle my body and achieve the velocity of escape.

From "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates

"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

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

I had imagined that retirement would offer a life unshackled at last, a blissful new chapter in which workplace anxiety no longer sullied my contentment.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 12, 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

I felt lighter, unshackled, as if something I had been carrying had fallen away.

From "Stargirl" by Jerry Spinelli

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

Her new book, “You Got Anything Stronger?,” continues the project of unshackling.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 16, 2021

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