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Recent Examples of unfixThis week, however, Mr. Cohen is poised to unfix Mr. Trump’s life.—William K. Rashbaum, New York Times, 12 May 2024
The acidic properties of this inexpensive, nontoxic, and eco-friendly household cleaner help to break down grease, loosen dried-on food, and neutralize funky odors.
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Gemma Johnstone,
The Spruce,
10 Jan. 2026
Instead of stimulating the brain, alcohol slows it down and loosens inhibitions.
But in 2010, Bernanke proposed something much more far-reaching: an initiative to disburse interest-free loans to major banks to unloose new tranches of cash throughout the economy.
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Chris Lehmann,
The New Republic,
19 Jan. 2022
In a long, cozy sequence in the season’s first episode, Sam cooks breakfast for her sleeping household, sizzling sausage and frying eggs in a private ritual that’s best appreciated before her daughters rise and unloose chaos.
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Alexandra Schwartz,
The New Yorker,
13 Apr. 2020
Isaacs, a Jewish apprentice merchant from England, loosed the rope around his waist and jumped for his life, landing on the edge of the Zulu kingdom.
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Adam L. Rovner,
The Conversation,
31 Oct. 2025
Illinois will get its share of stops, but the worst passing defense, statistically, in the Big Ten doesn’t have the athletes to compete consistently if the Buckeyes let Sayin loose again.
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Cameron Teague Robinson,
New York Times,
10 Oct. 2025
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