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Recent Examples of uncage With the help of the wise and mysterious maid Willie May (Latifah) and a stubborn new girl in school played by Mills, the boy must decide whether to set the tiger free and in turn uncage his emotional grief. Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 Aug. 2019
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  • Of the survivors, Superman works with Raven to find Constantine and help locate Robin, who’s on a quest to free Batman from slavery.
    Will Harris, Entertainment Weekly, 6 Sep. 2025
  • His fellow firefighters, including Gallagher —who was injured during the rescue — used extra manpower and tools to free him before he was stabilized at the scene and flown by CareFlite to the hospital, the department said.
    Shambhavi Rimal, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 5 Sep. 2025
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  • On Tuesday, 85 scientists released a 459-page rebuttal to the DOE report, highlighting a large body of scientific literature pointing to how climate change can exacerbate droughts, floods, crop failures, and other disasters.
    Robert Schmad, The Washington Examiner, 7 Sep. 2025
  • The panel studying those cases released a report last year describing how the state child welfare agency missed warning signs and failed to protect dozens of children from dying of the illicit drug.
    Laura Bauer, Kansas City Star, 7 Sep. 2025
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  • Others – like Boris – are liberated by it.
    David Lyman, Cincinnati Enquirer, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Secondly, and perhaps more importantly, Ozon diverges from the text in a few key places to offer a postcolonial reading of a novel that was published two decades before Algeria liberated itself from French rule.
    Jordan Mintzer, HollywoodReporter, 2 Sep. 2025
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  • So, there are still chances that the AHRQ could get rescued at some point by the House of Representatives.
    Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
  • The girl’s mom got into a kayak, paddled out to the sinking canoe and rescued her daughter, but her boyfriend went underwater, deputies said.
    Jennifer Rodriguez, Kansas City Star, 8 Sep. 2025
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  • The two wanted the Power of Veto winner to use the ability to keep Panaro, but instead, the winner saved themselves.
    Dina Kaur, AZCentral.com, 4 Sep. 2025
  • For engineers and designers, this framework is like giving a GPS map through the complex terrain of foam design—saving months of trial-and-error testing.
    Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 4 Sep. 2025

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“Uncage.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/uncage. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.

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