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Recent Examples of unclenchAlso, unclench your butt. Take some big, deep breaths throughout the day to soften your pelvic floor muscles; then work on stretching with a deep squat or yoga poses like child's pose or happy baby pose.—Marielle Segarra, NPR, 26 June 2025 Your stiff limbs begin to unclench, as if death is slowly losing its hold on you.—Outside Online, 19 Feb. 2025 If that doesn’t work, unclench your eyes, re-close them in the regular way, and then go back to sleep at a normal speed.—Ian Frazier, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2024 But first: Close your eyes, take a deep breath, unclench your jaw and roll your shoulders.—Laura L. Davis, USA TODAY, 15 Aug. 2023 CEOs could finally unclench, at least a little.—Geoff Colvin, Fortune, 27 Apr. 2022 For those who are vaccinated, relatively healthy, financially stable and with access to decent health care, there’s reason to unclench your jaw.—Washington Post, 19 Apr. 2022 Her storyline brought all our favorites together in the ambulance bay, working as a team to figure out how to unclench Gigi's jaw from her owner's arm.—Lincee Ray, EW.com, 25 Mar. 2022 Without such attention to Indian-Pakistani relations, India's democracy will not prosper and Pakistan's generals will never unclench their fists.—Christophe Jaffrelot, Foreign Affairs, 20 Feb. 2011
Mayfield rolled right with plenty of time before unfurling a long throw that threaded between Blankenship and rookie safety Drew Mukuba and struck Emeka Egbuka in stride for a 77-yard touchdown.
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Brooks Kubena,
New York Times,
29 Sep. 2025
Thierry Lemaire’s Mineral Origins At his gallery in the center of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, Thierry Lemaire, who also designs for Fendi Casa, unfurled his Mineral Origins exhibition.
It can be worn buttoned or unbuttoned with a tank top underneath and slacks at the office, unbuttoned over a maxi dress to cookouts, or as a swimsuit cover-up poolside.
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Clint Davis,
People.com,
24 June 2025
It can be worn buttoned or unbuttoned over a summer tank top, and the slim collar and rolled sleeves add a pop of texture to its simple design.
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.
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