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  • adjective Not tethered; not tied down
  • adjective Unrestrained

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective not confined or restricted with a tether

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Examples

  • And you are untethered from the economic ups and downs — and whims — of a traditional employer.

    The pros and cons of starting a small business 2009

  • I began reading, untethered from the computer, using the Handspring Visor and then the iPaq 4700 which I recall paying approximately the same amount that I did for the iPad.

    MIND MELD: The Apple iPad: Sizzle or Fizzle? 2010

  • It is pretty unbelievably amazing. #3 – a free floating spacewalk has pictures of a guy untethered from the ship about 100 meters from it.

    Breakfast Links: DeLorean & Spacewalks : #comments 2007

  • A government untethered from the checks and balances that individual rights and democracy provide may make serious errors of judgment that lead to more deaths and more human suffering, both for our own people and for people in other lands.

    Balkinization 2006

  • A government untethered from the checks and balances that individual rights and democracy provide may make serious errors of judgment that lead to more deaths and more human suffering, both for our own people and for people in other lands.

    Balkinization 2006

  • A government untethered from the checks and balances that individual rights and democracy provide may make serious errors of judgment that lead to more deaths and more human suffering, both for our own people and for people in other lands.

    Balkinization 2006

  • A government untethered from the checks and balances that individual rights and democracy provide may make serious errors of judgment that lead to more deaths and more human suffering, both for our own people and for people in other lands.

    Balkinization 2006

  • The pornographic imagination, untethered from the body and without hope of rest or resolution, suspends itself in sight, alert but alone, desiring only that which it cannot make real.

    How to Do the History of Pornography: Romantic Sexuality and its Field of Vision 2006

  • A government untethered from the checks and balances that individual rights and democracy provide may make serious errors of judgment that lead to more deaths and more human suffering, both for our own people and for people in other lands.

    Balkinization 2006

  • A government untethered from the checks and balances that individual rights and democracy provide may make serious errors of judgment that lead to more deaths and more human suffering, both for our own people and for people in other lands.

    Balkinization 2006

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