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"These cuts and reductions untie perpetrators' hands everywhere, leaving them to do whatever they please. With crises mounting, we cannot afford a human rights system in crisis," he added.

From Barron's ● Feb. 5, 2026

As a gesture of true camaraderie, they grin and untie their own blue pañuelos and tie these kerchiefs around our necks.

From Salon ● Nov. 8, 2025

TSA has often been a crapshoot, risking pileups as travelers pulled laptops from carry-ons and novice vacationers struggled to untie their sneakers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2025

Kardashian was quickly able to untie herself and her bodyguard arrived shortly after.

From BBC ● May 12, 2025

She stares at her feet, silently willing the laces to tie and untie in messy bows, scowling when they tangle into knots.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern

Under Mr. Cullman’s incisive direction the entire cast unties the emotional knots of the characters with impressive dexterity.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 7, 2026

On her deathbed, she finally unties the ribbon.

From Salon ● Aug. 24, 2022

Binoche, dancing in front of an air vent, unties a long, thick braid and shakes her black hair loose.

From The New Yorker ● Apr. 5, 2019

Manipulating an editing program called Avid, he skipped backward from the sequence in which Aldo unties Susan to an earlier sequence in the same scene, in which Aldo praises her abilities.

From New York Times ● Apr. 15, 2015

He unties everything and secures the rope more strongly.

From "Jazz" by Toni Morrison

But two years after the Supreme Court untied their hands, Grants Pass has not solved homelessness, and things have gone from bad to worse.

From Slate ● Jun. 27, 2026

Grandaddy, unbeaten and untied and still heavyweight champion of the college football world.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 1, 2026

She and Melissa take it out, and then they realize they have to put it back in so he doesn't know that they're untied.

From Salon ● May 1, 2025

Under the glare of fluorescent lights in her lab she slowly untied it, piece by piece, to expose the fabric for the first time in more than three decades.

From BBC ● Jan. 16, 2025

I untied the bracelet and held it out, and she snatched it quick as lightning.

From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia

He can also get “too friendly,” as Mr. Hartline puts it, untying shoelaces or pulling hair.

From New York Times ● Dec. 15, 2023

Mother and daughter enacted a meditative, loose exchange, taking turns carefully tying and untying each other for nearly two hours with the jute rope that is traditionally used in their family’s region of Guadalajara.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2023

But those surveyed by Pew also acknowledged that untying their countries and themselves from China was "not a pragmatic goal" from an economic standpoint.

From BBC ● Mar. 22, 2023

"We're untying our own hands with the update on unfair and deceptive practices," he said.

From Reuters ● Sep. 7, 2022

But earlier in the afternoon, Riefenstahl had discovered SS officers untying both her camera and her cameraman from the railing.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown