How to Use unfettered in a Sentence

unfettered

adjective
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  • The internet was largely unfettered, a portal to the rest of the world.
    — New York Times, 7 Mar. 2022
  • And some of his patients have had unfettered access to screens for most their lives.
    — Washington Post, 9 May 2022
  • Trump’s ban in the name of unfettered free speech remains unclear.
    — Washington Post, 26 Apr. 2022
  • The era of growing trade comity, and free and unfettered trade with rivals, is looking more like a fad and less like the end point of a trend.
    — Josh Zumbrun, WSJ, 10 Mar. 2022
  • To be sure, unfettered low-cost supply chains are not an end in themselves.
    — Jason Bordoff, Foreign Affairs, 18 Jan. 2024
  • Yet Weinzierl adds that Earth is full of unfettered capital, and space offers one new place to park it.
    — Rebecca Boyle, Scientific American, 28 July 2022
  • The show is about unfettered hedonism, in some ways, so there was a little bit of embracing that.
    — Marlow Stern, Rolling Stone, 12 Dec. 2022
  • The goal is simply to sign and build acts unfettered by attaching labels.
    — Melinda Newman, Billboard, 16 Feb. 2024
  • Argentina, 1985 reminds us that the unfettered truth is strong medicine.
    — Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Sep. 2022
  • The film was blessed by the Bowie estate, which gave Morgen the freedom to scour his artistic vaults, a process that took two years and the first time anyone has had such unfettered access.
    — Melissa Ruggieri, USA TODAY, 16 Sep. 2022
  • According to a report, the Jets will not give the Hard Knocks crew unfettered access during training camp.
    — oregonlive, 18 July 2023
  • Michaels gave Chris Smith, a writer with the magazine, unfettered access to Studio 8H for weeks.
    — Geoff Edgers, Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2023
  • Almost no one is arguing that China has achieved its strength in a free and unfettered market.
    — Daniel Foster, National Review, 30 Nov. 2023
  • Time, while precious, can be bought; space, that mental state of unfettered carelessness, cannot.
    — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 25 Jan. 2022
  • Musk's views on unfettered speech suggest that the ban Twitter imposed on Donald Trump last year will be lifted.
    — The Week Staff, The Week, 30 Apr. 2022
  • Some cars jutted onto a sidewalk that in calmer times offered an unfettered view of the Pacific Ocean.
    — Thomas Fuller, New York Times, 10 Aug. 2023
  • Researchers and activists worry that Musk’s focus on unfettered speech will erode tools Twitter’s trust and safety team has built over the years.
    — Suhauna Hussain and Brian Contreras, Anchorage Daily News, 28 Apr. 2022
  • Williams remains in the facility to this day, and her family says the guardian is the only person who has unfettered access to her.
    — Brianne Tracy, Peoplemag, 23 Feb. 2024
  • Potente takes on the part of May Bennett, aka Mother Mayhem, who is a predator in human form with an unfettered belief in her mission in the world.
    — Lesley Goldberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 Jan. 2022
  • But when people have time or unfettered time, which prison in a f**ked up way provides, everyone's creative.
    — Dani Di Placido, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2024
  • His unfettered verve and humor is much needed after the questionable first hour.
    — Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 4 Aug. 2023
  • The days of Belichick running an unfettered, football fiefdom with little oversight need to be over.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Apr. 2023
  • Baltimore cops would also get unfettered access to video footage from the cameras.
    — Bryn Stole, baltimoresun.com, 15 Mar. 2022
  • According to Reuters, Tesla employees had unfettered access to those videos of you—and more.
    — Kylie Robison, Fortune, 7 Apr. 2023
  • Yet the consumer internet was never an unfettered free-speech zone.
    — Will Oremus, Washington Post, 9 Oct. 2022
  • And the common denominator is the unfettered, easy access to firearms.
    — Mitch Albom, Detroit Free Press, 19 Feb. 2023
  • Pastors were preaching the prosperity gospel; politicians were singing the praises of the unfettered free market.
    — Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker, 17 Oct. 2022
  • This kind of unfettered discretion does not sit well with everyone.
    — Daniel Novack, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Mar. 2022
  • In his own unfettered style, Singer at first set about reconstructing episodes from Europe’s distant past.
    — Benjamin Balint, WSJ, 17 June 2022
  • But unfettered viral spread can wreak widespread havoc as well.
    — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 16 Aug. 2022

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