Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unmoored
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Millions remain far from liberated from economic pressure, and few of us feel burdened by an excess of free time.—
Arianna Huffington,
Fortune,
24 Oct. 2025 -
The Warsaw doctors likewise wrote about patients whose hearts failed after they were fed; when Allied soldiers liberated the concentration camps, large numbers of emaciated people died after being given high-calorie foods such as chocolate.—
Clayton Dalton,
New Yorker,
18 Oct. 2025
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This is well over a dozen years before Black people are declared emancipated.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
25 Sep. 2025
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In the Revolutionary War itself, Britain’s Lord Dunmore had emancipated large numbers of southern slaves as a war measure—a fact well-known in both the 1770s and the 1860s.—
Akhil Reed Amar,
Time,
22 Sep. 2025
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George’s orange cat, Saskia, had sprung through the window from the garden.—
David Wingrave,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Oct. 2025
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Up front, Dusan Vlahovic held the ball up well, sprung several counter-attacks and beat Eder Militao in a foot-race only for Thibaut Courtois to prevail in the one-v-one.—
James Horncastle,
New York Times,
23 Oct. 2025
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Everyone instantly sprung into action.—
Ashlyn Robinette,
PEOPLE,
21 Oct. 2025
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The crowd cheered as the trap was sprung.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
16 Oct. 2025
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Once freed from slavery, Washington toiled in coal mines, worked as a janitor in exchange for formal education and became a great American orator and leader of the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama.—
Jennifer Smith Richards,
ProPublica,
22 Oct. 2025
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After the man was freed, he was taken to a hospital with serious injuries to his lower body, according to KXAS and The Dallas Morning News.—
Abigail Adams,
PEOPLE,
21 Oct. 2025
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“Unmoored.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unmoored. Accessed 27 Oct. 2025.
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