unfix

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Recent Examples of unfix This week, however, Mr. Cohen is poised to unfix Mr. Trump’s life. William K. Rashbaum, New York Times, 12 May 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unfix
Verb
  • Adama unfastened a padlock and loosened the chain securing the doors.
    Ken Harbaugh, The Atlantic, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Chisolm immediately dropped his bat and unfastened his elbow guard.
    Dan Freedman, Forbes.com, 4 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The number of foreign residents has risen sharply in recent years, reaching a record 3 percent of the population in 2024, as Tokyo cautiously loosened visa rules for workers in key industries such as manufacturing, agriculture, and caregiving.
    Micah McCartney, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Oct. 2025
  • If your windows are heavily dirty, let the solution sit for a couple of minutes to loosen the dirt.
    Ashlyn Needham, Southern Living, 24 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • 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.
    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.
    Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2020
Verb
  • 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.
    Cameron Teague Robinson, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Safer, then, to keep loosing arrows at others’ positions rather than one’s own.
    Shai Tubali, Big Think, 30 Sep. 2025

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“Unfix.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unfix. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.

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