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Recent Examples of unbuttoned
Jake Kanter, Deadline, 22 Jan. 2026
In the image, the 24-year-old can be seen wearing a completely unbuttoned red blouse, matching red pants, and matching stilettos.
—Emma Banks, InStyle, 21 Jan. 2026
She was accompanied on the red carpet by her husband, music producer Benny Blanco, who wore a black suit with an unbuttoned shirt and statement brooch.
—Oscar Holland, CNN Money, 12 Jan. 2026
Curtis wore white pants, a black T-shirt, and an unbuttoned blue denim shirt and accessorized (well, used) a cane, apparently due to an injury.
—Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 5 Aug. 2025
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Adjective
Brand, wearing an unbuttoned denim shirt, spoke only to confirm his name and date of birth during the six-minute hearing, but later took issue with a courtroom sketch of his appearance.
—Jake Kanter, Deadline, 22 Jan. 2026
In the image, the 24-year-old can be seen wearing a completely unbuttoned red blouse, matching red pants, and matching stilettos.
—Emma Banks, InStyle, 21 Jan. 2026
She was accompanied on the red carpet by her husband, music producer Benny Blanco, who wore a black suit with an unbuttoned shirt and statement brooch.
—Oscar Holland, CNN Money, 12 Jan. 2026
Curtis wore white pants, a black T-shirt, and an unbuttoned blue denim shirt and accessorized (well, used) a cane, apparently due to an injury.
—Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 5 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unbuttoned
Adjective
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One of the enduring images from the uprising of two months ago was endless unzipped black body bags lining the streets.—
Lily Moayeri,
Rolling Stone,
3 Mar. 2026
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Gisele Bündchen radiated in an unzipped, high-cut wetsuit and beachy waves for her new Garnier campaign.—
Christina Perrier,
InStyle,
3 Mar. 2026
Verb
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How the choreography unfurled by the crowd shimmered in the night.—
Sebastian Stafford-Bloor,
New York Times,
7 May 2026
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Virtually every modern presidency has understood this, leaning into discretion and gesturing toward transparency even as new security measures have been unfurled over time.—
Neil Flanagan,
The Atlantic,
2 May 2026
Verb
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After the pink fabric is unfastened from styrofoam beams floating 200 feet out from each island, the sections are towed to shore and rolled up in bundles, Morgan said.—
Miami Herald Archives,
Miami Herald,
29 Apr. 2026
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Skinny Pedro unfastened his seat belt and turned his seat around to face me.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
12 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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Fold one corner down to create a triangle (the rest of the towel should remain unfolded and look like a rectangle attached to the triangle).—
Lauren Wellbank,
Martha Stewart,
4 May 2026
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The unfolded detail does not go unnoticed and is very much respected and appreciated.—
Greta Cross,
USA Today,
5 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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Rex, a 3-year-old wallaby, wandered away from the Lots of Love Farm in Williamstown after a gate was allegedly left unlatched overnight.—
Alexandra Koch,
FOXNews.com,
31 Dec. 2025
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Advertisement Stafford depressurized the cockpit, matching the vacuum inside to the vacuum outside so that the hatch would not blow open and fly free from interior air pressure when it was unlatched.—
Jeffrey Kluger,
Time,
11 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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The unlawful taking of articles from a motor vehicle, locked or unlocked.—
Baltimore Sun staff,
Baltimore Sun,
6 May 2026
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Investigators said that Scott walked through an unlocked front door, stripped off his clothes and went straight into a sleeping child’s bedroom.—
Stepheny Price,
FOXNews.com,
29 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Attenborough, more than anybody, has established the link between the patch of glass in our living rooms and the wide world beyond—which, thanks to him, is revealed to be wider, weirder, and more combative than anyone could have conceived.—
Anthony Lane,
New Yorker,
8 May 2026
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However, passes weren’t connecting, Montreal’s speed was able to keep up with the Frost’s own, and shot attempts ended up being too wide of the net to go in.—
Theodore Tollefson,
Twin Cities,
8 May 2026
Adjective
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Tollinche has a prior unsealed arrest for allegedly raping a minor in 2025, according to records.—
Aaron Katersky,
ABC News,
1 May 2026
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According to the lawsuit, residents moved in to find shattered glass on balconies, unsealed concrete, and chunks of concrete falling to the ground.—
Larry Seward,
CBS News,
1 May 2026
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“Unbuttoned.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unbuttoned. Accessed 13 May. 2026.
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