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untethered

/ ʌnˈtɛðəd /

adjective

  1. not tied or limited with or as if with a tether

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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The President’s determination was simply untethered to the facts.”

The administration is expected to appeal the judge’s decision, Leavitt said, while calling the judge’s ruling “untethered in reality and in the law.”

But the Fourth Reich-scale ambition of this apparent Trumpian agenda is genuinely breathtaking, partly because it’s so completely untethered to political pragmatism.

From Salon

Kirk was after something cooler, grander, more numinous and entirely of the moment: celebrity as a celebration of itself, untethered to any specific skills or accomplishments.

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Needless to say, Kelly’s diss is completely untethered from reality.

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