unbind

The goal is to “create a situation where no one can unbind their ties,” said Narushige Michishita, a professor of international relations at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies in Tokyo.

From New York Times ● Apr. 7, 2024

Once released, the acetylcholine stays in the cleft and can continually bind and unbind to postsynaptic receptors.

From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022

At higher temperatures, these vortices unbind and move away from each other, and are eventually destroyed by the system’s entropy.

From Nature ● May 1, 2019

He spent hours huddling with Sen. Mike Lee of Utah and Kendra Unruh, a Colorado delegate who drove the effort to unbind delegates and thwart Mr. Trump.

From Washington Times ● Jul. 14, 2016

Then they rested and slept without fear upon the ground; for their guides would not permit them to unbind their eyes, and they could not climb.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien

The group wants delegates to return to the floor once their state reaches the round of balloting that formally unbinds them to do whatever they want.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 13, 2016

Meyer unbinds the captive, and the huge fish and I are floating free in the crystalline blue water.

From Time Magazine Archive

DISSIMULATION, standing behind FRAUD, unbinds him, and while all the rest behold SIMPLICITY, they two slip away; PLEASURE, missing FRAUD, saith— PLEASURE.

From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 6 by William Carew Hazlitt

Hercules then unbinds Prometheus who repairs to a certain exquisite interlunar cave and there dwells in tranquillity with his beloved Asia.

From The English Novel And the Principle of its Development by Sidney Lanier

But when his hapless sister knew afar the whistling wings of the Fury, Juturna unbinds and tears her tresses, with rent face and smitten bosom.

From The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil

Clemency is a plea, unbound by the structure and procedural limitations of the law.

From Slate ● Mar. 6, 2026

His scores, with their inherent rigor and overt religiosity, seemingly simple structure and patient exposition, conjure a world both foundational and unbound.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2025

“The Brutalist” is a film, in part, about the perils of unbound creativity, but Corbet manages to prove his own film wrong by assembling the most monumental achievement of any of the five nominees.

From Salon ● Feb. 28, 2025

But once he releases his delegates, they would be unbound by his wishes, meaning any number of candidates can try to win a majority of more than 4,500 voting party delegates.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2024

After a blank, I found that I was lying unbound, on the floor, in the same place, with my head on some one’s knee.

From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens

"It was different than the usual encounters I have with my Palestinian artist friends; there was this unbinding connection, because we don't know if we're going to see each other" again, he said.

From Barron's ● Feb. 21, 2026

As part of their bids, the companies had also submitted unbinding offers to build three more nuclear reactors.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 31, 2024

“Vanessa has this unbinding, positive outlook on life,” Mr. Gynd said.

From New York Times ● Mar. 9, 2019

The economies of the two nations are deeply enmeshed at this point, and unbinding them will be painful—especially for industries like agriculture, for which trade with China has been a boon.

From Slate ● Apr. 4, 2018

The controlled binding and unbinding of iron and oxygen—the cyclical rusting and unrusting of blood—allows effective oxygen delivery into tissues.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee