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- verb Present participle of
unmoor .
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Examples
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The Cowboy finished unmooring the boat, while the Kahuna headed to the cabin.
Rogue Oracle 2011
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The Cowboy finished unmooring the boat, while the Kahuna headed to the cabin.
Rogue Oracle 2011
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The Soviet collapse also unleashed economic and social chaos in Russia itself, as well as the further unmooring of the Middle East.
A world with no one in charge Robert D. Kaplan 2010
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But what we saw since the 1980s was the unmooring of the financial sector from the rest of the economy.
'13 Bankers' In 4 Pictures: Why Wall Street Profits Are Out Of Whack 2010
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Second, the unmooring of surveillance from a phone line, email address, or other communication channel specified in advance raised some concerns about the breadth of orders where a target was identified by description rather than name.
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But what we saw since the 1980s was the unmooring of the financial sector from the rest of the economy.
James Kwak: '13 Bankers' In 4 Pictures: Why Wall Street Profits Are Out Of Whack 2010
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What is required for works of literature to be accepted as the kind of distinctive activity their authors conceive them to be is for everyone involved -- readers, critics, writers themselves -- to acknowledge that in this particular instance, the exercise of the imagination we call fiction or poetry, language has a license to wander where it will, if necessary unmooring itself completely from the constraints of representing reality in its most familiar forms.
Realism in Fiction 2008
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But what we saw since the 1980s was the unmooring of the financial sector from the rest of the economy.
Arianna Huffington: Not All Jobs Are Created Equal: Why Wall Street's Gain Has Been America's Loss 2010
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But what we saw since the 1980s was the unmooring of the financial sector from the rest of the economy.
James Kwak: '13 Bankers' In 4 Pictures: Why Wall Street Profits Are Out Of Whack James Kwak 2010
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That sense of unmooring, that disbelief, has been replaced by the acknowledgement that the market, for the foreseeable future, will remain grim.
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