unshackle

Example Sentences

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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

However, she still strongly emphasizes to Paul that she believes that only the Fremen can unshackle themselves – not an outside messiah or prophecy.

From Salon • Mar. 9, 2024

“Ithaka” focuses on the fight to unshackle Assange from his legal peril through the rallying efforts of his septuagenarian father, John Shipton, and then-fiancée Stella Moris, with whom Assange has two children.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 2, 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