unburden

Confident following four successive wins, Scotland started brightly in Cape Town, seemingly unburdened by the pressure of such a high-stakes contest.

Those who support a more rehabilitative approach have hailed Gascón’s efforts as proof that pursuing a different tack can unburden the criminal justice system and help build lives and communities.

That includes the time Harris made an obscure reference to falling out of a coconut tree and her oft-repeated line about being “unburdened by what has been.”

The predictive technologies that are promising to unburden us of the inconveniences of life are also creating a situation where we are gradually more anxious, not less anxious.

At the time, the hope was that Ohtani’s offense would be unburdened by his elbow surgery and rehab as a pitcher.