unmoor

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Recent Examples of unmoor By Big Tech standards, Netflix has remained a strongly independent company over its 25-year run, spurning big acquisitions and splashy deals that could unmoor its roots. Jacob Carpenter, Fortune, 14 July 2022 The German Greens, now part of the country’s ruling coalition, lashed out at previous governments for not working faster to unmoor Germany’s economy from Russian fossil fuels. Washington Post, 21 Apr. 2022 When announced at Jackson Hole in August, the goal of the Fed’s new doctrine was actually to unmoor inflation expectations, which were purportedly running too low for too long. Kevin Warsh, WSJ, 7 June 2021 But the overarching ambitions laid out by Sims-Fewer and Mancinelli, who’ve collaborated before on a handful of notable short films, unmoor the writer-directors from the heart of their subject. K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 27 Mar. 2021 See all Example Sentences for unmoor 
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Verb
  • As spring ends, maple trees begin to unfetter winged seeds that flutter and swirl from branches to land gently on the ground.
    Nikk Ogasa, Scientific American, 22 Sep. 2021
  • His long run in office, however, delivered only partial victories on his two primary ambitions: to unfetter Japan’s military after decades of postwar pacifism and to jump-start and overhaul its economy through a program known as Abenomics.
    New York Times, New York Times, 8 July 2022
Verb
  • Lacking the self-conscious grimness of Arrow that initially kept it away from four-color adventures, The Flash was immediately liberated to go full comic book, kickstarting the small-screen answer to the MCU.
    Joshua Rivera, Vulture, 13 Nov. 2024
  • When the Russians came in to liberate it, the Nazis didn’t have enough time to burn everything down.
    Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 31 Oct. 2024
Verb
  • Rap is a commercial and creative outlet not unshackled from the overarching jingoist predilections binding its place of origin.
    Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 1 Nov. 2024
  • The haunted house stages feature a light bulb that Captain Astro has to pick to reveal invisible platforms while the level called Free Big Brother! has players unshackling a giant robot who has been tied down by baddies.
    Gieson Cacho, The Mercury News, 13 Sep. 2024
Verb
  • Trump has insisted his tariffs would create jobs at home and emancipate the U.S. from being at the mercy of foreign manufacturing.
    Eric Cortellessa, TIME, 5 Nov. 2024
  • Additionally, a few months before this vote, the War Department had opened enlistment to the enslaved Americans in the state, and emancipated those who did so.
    Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 3 Nov. 2024
Verb
  • When Henson refused to unchain herself from the fence, California Highway Patrol arrested her.
    Kate Talerico, The Mercury News, 7 Aug. 2024
  • Max eventually unchains himself and helps Furiosa in her quest to free the cult leader's wives, gaining mutual respect along the way.
    EW Staff, EW.com, 3 July 2024
Verb
  • Millions were enfranchised when women got the vote in 1920, but Black women were mostly excluded from voting due to legal discrimination.
    JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 18 Sep. 2024
  • Comprehensively enfranchising migrants as urban citizens could lead to severe backlash from the urban elites—the constituency with which the CCP most closely aligns.
    Damien Ma, Foreign Affairs, 25 Aug. 2015
Verb
  • The book was centered on the idea that Russia’s geography is its fate and that there is nothing any ruler can do to unbind himself from the necessities of securing his lands.
    Anton Barbashin, Foreign Affairs, 31 Mar. 2014
  • The blazers who run the major championships have not yet commissioned sculptures of these two women, who so unbound their sport and gave the gift of professional aspiration to so many.
    Sally Jenkins, Anchorage Daily News, 3 July 2023
Verb
  • WandaVision heralded the era of MCU-set series influencing its big-screen stories; watching the show helped audiences understand what would happen in upcoming movies, and story lines and characters in the movies sprung directly from what happened on TV.
    Josef Adalian, Vulture, 4 Nov. 2024
  • Korey, his wife and partner in both the river guide business and fire department, sprang awake next to him.
    Chris Kenning, USA TODAY, 30 Oct. 2024

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“Unmoor.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unmoor. Accessed 28 Nov. 2024.

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