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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

"The person who tied the bell must untie it," he added.

From BBC ● Apr. 24, 2025

Then I untie the black collared shirt from around my waist and put it on, buttoning it up all the way to my neck and clipping my suspenders over it.

From "Legend" by Marie Lu

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

The preceding explanation unties the Gordian knot, and you can stop there if you want.

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner

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

His growing eccentricity, which included untied shoelaces and hair that spiked out in all directions, completed the stock image of a distracted scientist.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 7, 2025

After a short bus ride, the group boarded a naval vessel in the Bay of Bengal, which Mr Noor said they only realised later once their hands had been untied and their faces uncovered.

From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2025

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

The doctor reached behind his head and untied the mask.

From "Because of Mr. Terupt" by Rob Buyea

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

From New York Times ● Dec. 15, 2023

Kris Siyuja, 14, took seriously his duties over the two days of events, which included untying bundles of sage, carrying a staff and tapping a drum that he said would amplify Havasupai voices.

From Seattle Times ● May 11, 2023

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

From Reuters ● Sep. 7, 2022

"I awoke from dreams of untying a great knot," sings Zauner on the opening track, Paprika.

From BBC ● Dec. 22, 2021

“He is that foolish, Principal,” my mother said as she and Granny began untying me.

From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane