untethered

British

/ ʌnˈtɛðəd /

adjective

not tied or limited with or as if with a tether

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Example Sentences

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His gauzy harmonies regularly come untethered from the beat, floating over the songs like dandelion seeds in the breeze.

From BBC

She also felt “untethered” from her college friends who, she writes, romanticized her time with revolutionaries as “far out” and “cool.”

From The Wall Street Journal

The sweet spot —Regan’s words, not mine—was now, when things were essentially in limbo, and we could make the jump back in time untethered by a future that was already set in stone.

From Literature

"Your wild imagination, your brave untethered womanhood, your ferocious gentleness is a guiding light to me."

From BBC

His generation of artists, he thought, was increasingly untethered from a concrete movement or theme.

From Los Angeles Times

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