as in to untie
to disengage the knotted parts of
gently unfastened the strings of the baby's hood
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Recent Examples of unfasten
On Black Friday last year, with the Chiefs and Raiders reserved for a national TV audience, quarterback Patrick Mahomes slammed a football between his hands and angrily unfastened his chin strap before yelling toward the sideline.
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Sam McDowell, Kansas City Star, 18 Apr. 2025
Grant, meanwhile, wore a simple black suit and a white button-up shirt with the first few buttons unfastened in a boyish manner.
—Raven Brunner, People.com, 29 Jan. 2025
Ayoola attempted to put his fingers between his neck and the seatbelt, and was unable to unfasten his seatbelt.
—Landon Mion, Fox News, 8 Sep. 2024
This paper proposes a spherical tether handling device that unfastens a robot’s tether during surveys by releasing the tether and carrying it aside.
—Erico Guizzo, IEEE Spectrum, 21 Oct. 2016
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Sam McDowell, Kansas City Star, 18 Apr. 2025
Grant, meanwhile, wore a simple black suit and a white button-up shirt with the first few buttons unfastened in a boyish manner.
—Raven Brunner, People.com, 29 Jan. 2025
Ayoola attempted to put his fingers between his neck and the seatbelt, and was unable to unfasten his seatbelt.
—Landon Mion, Fox News, 8 Sep. 2024
This paper proposes a spherical tether handling device that unfastens a robot’s tether during surveys by releasing the tether and carrying it aside.
—Erico Guizzo, IEEE Spectrum, 21 Oct. 2016
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unfasten
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Then, in a paper posted in June, Hermiller and her longtime collaborator Mark Brittenham uncovered a pair of knots that, when combined, form a knot that is easier to untie than the conjecture predicts.—
Leila Sloman,
Quanta Magazine,
22 Sep. 2025
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Philanthropic support, untied to narrow deliverables, can enable scientists to cross the disciplinary silos that federal agencies often reinforce — silos that reflect not just bureaucratic divisions but also entrenched cultural differences across the sciences.—
John Drake,
Forbes.com,
16 Sep. 2025
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Lance Wilson, a public-relations professional who works with the Anti Police-Terror Project, warned that the council might loosen the restrictions further, potentially allowing chases for lesser crimes, such as burglary.—
Shomik Mukherjee,
Mercury News,
26 Sep. 2025
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The league decided to loosen some of those restrictions for the 2025 season.—
Chantz Martin,
FOXNews.com,
25 Sep. 2025
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Second, the rookie wall — late December has undone a lot of promising rookie campaigns with some bad tape and things to work on.—
Joe Buscaglia,
New York Times,
1 Oct. 2025
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Netanyahu knows that his political future is dependent on keeping far-right members of his coalition on board – and that dynamic has undone past pushes for the end of the war.—
Asher Kaufman,
The Conversation,
30 Sep. 2025
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But for Buddhists, dying is an opportunity to unbind from the past and start again.—
Amanda Whiting,
Vulture,
16 Mar. 2025
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The blazers who run the major championships have not yet commissioned sculptures of these two women, who so unbound their sport and gave the gift of professional aspiration to so many.—
Sally Jenkins,
Anchorage Daily News,
3 July 2023
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“Unfasten.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unfasten. Accessed 2 Oct. 2025.
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