Antonyms for shackledshack·led

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1. fettered, shackledadjective

   bound by chains fastened around the ankles

   Antonyms:
   unbound

   Synonyms:
   fettered

How to use shackled in a sentence?

1. Suzanne Sisley:

   With marijuana you have to go through added layers of government red tape. It highlights the way marijuana research is being shackled by politics.

2. Jay Inslee:

   I was concerned, like most everyone was, of the comments coming out of this campaign, i will reserve judgment until we see what Joe Biden for his approach actually proposes. And I will wait and see if Joe Biden for his approach can match the commitments that I have made to the American people. If Joe Biden for his approach does that, I think it will be a great day for the Democratic Party, but to do so, Joe Biden for his approach's going to have to up Joe Biden for his approach game and say categorically we can not be shackled to coal jobs forever.

3. William E. Borah:

   Without an unfettered press, without liberty of speech, all of the outward forms and structures of free institutions are a sham, a pretense -- the sheerest mockery. If the press is not free; if speech is not independent and untrammeled; if the mind is shackled or made impotent through fear, it makes no difference under what form of government you live, you are a subject and not a citizen.

4. Simon Cheng:

   I was hung (handcuffed and shackled) on a steep X-Cross doing a spread-eagled pose for hours after hours, sometimes, they ordered me to do the 'stress tests', which includes extreme strength exercise such as 'squat' and 'chair pose' for countless hours. They beat me every time I failed to do so using something like sharpened batons.

5. Chetan Dube:

   A large part of your brain is shackled by the boredom and drudgery of everyday existence, you have to drive a car, vacuum the floor or take the garbage out. But imagine if technology could come along and take care of all these mundane chores for you, and allow you to indulge in the forms of creative expression that only the human brain can indulge in. What a beautiful world we would be able to create around us.

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