unlatched; unlatching; unlatches
: to open or loose by lifting the latch
: to become loosed or opened
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Raven is ever attentive to the imaging of the West as a kind of battleground, where surveillance (and the camera’s inexorable links to the military apparatus) tussles with sentimentality in a centuries-long project from which the national psyche cannot seem to unlatch.
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Anne Reeve, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2025
Emptying the dustbin was hassle-free, with clear arrow stickers showing exactly where to unlatch.
—Toni Sutton, PEOPLE, 25 Sep. 2025
That’s swift enough to destroy the carbon-fiber fuselage in an emergency landing, but gentle enough to let the pilot unlatch the canopy and walk away injury-free in 97 percent of test scenarios.
—IEEE Spectrum, 11 Sep. 2025
The user simply gripped a handle to pull the door open and used a thumb to press a button to unlatch the door.
—New Atlas, 2 Aug. 2025
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Anne Reeve, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2025
Emptying the dustbin was hassle-free, with clear arrow stickers showing exactly where to unlatch.
—Toni Sutton, PEOPLE, 25 Sep. 2025
That’s swift enough to destroy the carbon-fiber fuselage in an emergency landing, but gentle enough to let the pilot unlatch the canopy and walk away injury-free in 97 percent of test scenarios.
—IEEE Spectrum, 11 Sep. 2025
The user simply gripped a handle to pull the door open and used a thumb to press a button to unlatch the door.
—New Atlas, 2 Aug. 2025
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“Unlatch.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/unlatch. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.
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unlatch
verb
un·latch
ˌən-ˈlach 
1
: to open or loose by lifting the latch
2
: to become loosed or opened
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