release
verb (used with object)
to free from confinement, bondage, obligation, pain, etc.; let go.
unreleasable
-
a word derived from
release.
Example Sentences
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Apple spent $120 million on a movie with Oscar buzz — but the film features Will Smith, making it potentially unreleasable.
From New York Times ● Sep. 19, 2022
He said he hated the film and that it was uncuttable and unreleasable.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 6, 2018
And there are already claims that SeaWorld marks releasable orcas as unreleasable for its own benefit.
From Slate ● Jan. 6, 2017
The board, which began work in late 2013, is gradually whittling down the list of detainees whom the task force deemed unreleasable.
From New York Times ● Sep. 25, 2015
Its first phase, a two-record "concept album," turned out to be unreleasable because it unwisely sounded just like Les Miz and had to be junked at a cost of $500,000.
From Time Magazine Archive
