unhook

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Recent Examples of unhook There's still a bit of manual work – unhooking latches, adding in ground supports and awning poles, etc., but the heavy lifting is taken care of by pushing a couple buttons. New Atlas, 21 Feb. 2025 In the video, he is seen reaching up amid the heavy, black smoke, carefully unhooking the shredded banner from a flag pole in front of the home. Alexandra Koch, Fox News, 16 Jan. 2025 Portnoy did not try to turn on the boat before unhooking it from the from the buoys. Julia Gomez, USA TODAY, 17 July 2024 Use a set of pliers to grab the carpet and pull it toward the tack strip, up, and away to unhook it from the tacks. Timothy Dale, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 July 2024 See All Example Sentences for unhook
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unhook
Verb
  • His bow tie wants to be untied, his vest buttons unfastened, his top hat removed.
    James Meyer, Artforum, 1 May 2025
  • On Black Friday last year, with the Chiefs and Raiders reserved for a national TV audience, quarterback Patrick Mahomes slammed a football between his hands and angrily unfastened his chin strap before yelling toward the sideline.
    Sam McDowell, Kansas City Star, 18 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Its appeal lies in its hybrid nature — users can play the console on a TV, but can also detach it to use it on the go.
    Arjun Kharpal, CNBC, 18 June 2025
  • Two legislative leaders, Perez and Senate President Ben Albritton, R-Wauchula, and their key staff members, oversaw reams of spending decisions while most lawmakers were back home in their districts, totally detached from it all.
    Steve Bousquet, Sun Sentinel, 14 June 2025
Verb
  • As highlighted in the report, empathetic managers reduce uncertainty stress by 37% and disconnect by nearly 50%.
    Julian Hayes II, Forbes.com, 21 June 2025
  • If time allows, disconnect utilities and appliances.
    NC Weather Bot, Charlotte Observer, 21 June 2025
Verb
  • Since returning to the White House, President Donald Trump has undone many of the Biden-era immigration policies.
    Ana Ceballos, Miami Herald, 28 June 2025
  • As the Catholic archdiocese hunts for ways to contract, it’s been shedding churches wholesale and having no trouble finding buyers that are tuned to the doings — or undoing — of religious organizations.
    Justin Davidson, Curbed, 27 June 2025
Verb
  • In fact, a creative study led by a neuroscientist, Susanne Becker, uses insights from none other than Ivan Pavlov to show the possibility of uncoupling the sensation of pain from the experience of pain.
    Peter Ubel, Forbes.com, 10 June 2025
  • The Live cohost and longtime spouses — who first married 29 years ago after meeting on the set of All My Children — discussed the potential impact of them breaking up after Ripa introduced a talking point about uncoupling on Thursday morning's show.
    Joey Nolfi Published, EW.com, 29 May 2025
Verb
  • Our book, The Price of Our Values: The Economic Limits of Moral Life argues that our moral decisions cannot be dissociated from economic considerations.
    HEC Paris Insights, Forbes.com, 25 June 2025
  • The servings come from the ether, a bottomless well of mushy, purposeless, dissociated slop.
    Emma Goldberg, New York Times, 19 May 2025

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“Unhook.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unhook. Accessed 3 Jul. 2025.

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