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shackles

  • present tense form of shackle (3rd person singular).

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“I think she has her own accommodations,” Shackles Hunt said.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 9, 2024

Shackles from the film “Cool Hand Luke”; a script from the 1963 comedy “A New Kind of Love”; the wedding dress that Joanne Woodward wore the day she married Paul Newman in 1958.

From New York Times • Mar. 3, 2023

David Shackles, joint chair of the Royal College of GPs in Scotland, told the BBC's Good Morning Scotland programme that face-to-face consulting remained "something that GPs and patients value".

From BBC • Aug. 26, 2021

Hunt and Shackles have three children – Gracie, Knobel and Ava.

From Fox News • Jan. 21, 2020

Now that Jefferson had raised the issue of political betrayal, he would have to “excuse the freedom of this discussion...which has taken off the Shackles I should otherwise found myself embarrassed with.”

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis