unhitches

present tense third-person singular of unhitch

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Verb
  • Shillitoe's Kejashi system, which sounds Japanese but is just a nod do his own name KEnt JAmes SHIllitoe, disconnects the forks and handlebars from the normal steering head, and mounts them on a trailing arm coming back from a point well out in front of the fairing.
    Loz Blain August 04, New Atlas, 4 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Flowing west from Miller Beach in Gary, the river splits between Hammond and East Chicago — most of its waters heading north to drain into Lake Michigan through the Indiana Harbor, the rest flowing toward Illinois.
    Adriana Pérez, Chicago Tribune, 31 Aug. 2025
  • The assumption was that when one species splits from another, the two new forms passively evolve away from each other, drifting solo on their evolutionary paths like two untethered buoys at sea.
    Jake Buehler, Quanta Magazine, 28 Aug. 2025
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“Unhitches.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unhitches. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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