unhooked

Definition of unhookednext
past tense of unhook

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for unhooked
Verb
  • After the pink fabric is unfastened from styrofoam beams floating 200 feet out from each island, the sections are towed to shore and rolled up in bundles, Morgan said.
    Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 29 Apr. 2026
  • Skinny Pedro unfastened his seat belt and turned his seat around to face me.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 12 Jan. 2026
Verb
  • A lot of older people at studios are making greenlighting decisions, and they are disconnected from the audience.
    Brent Lang, Variety, 1 June 2026
  • Once those systems are disconnected, even power that arrives later may no longer reach the areas where it is needed most.
    Sufan Jiang, Fortune, 30 May 2026
Verb
  • The Expedition continued into the intersection and hit a truck that was pulling a Bobcat on a trailer, which detached from the truck and spun around.
    Nathan Pilling, Kansas City Star, 3 June 2026
  • America is witnessing a dangerous generation of disconnected young people, increasingly detached from the value of human life itself.
    Editorial, Boston Herald, 1 June 2026
Verb
  • Ryan Oksenhorn, co-founder of drone delivery startup Zipline, wrote in a post on X last month that his company was evaluating GitLab and Atlassian's Bitbucket after GitHub accidentally undid code revisions, and subsequently provided instructions on recovering changes.
    Jordan Novet, CNBC, 22 May 2026
  • Specifically, the 2025 One Big Beautiful Bill Act undid parts of the Biden-era Inflation Reduction Act that had offered tax incentives for wind and solar.
    David Condos, NPR, 19 May 2026
Verb
  • When tube feet were severed, the wound margin was a mess of missing or fragmented epidermal and connective tissue.
    Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 29 May 2026
  • The agency, which also serves Milpitas, Cupertino and Saratoga, has since severed ties with the rescue, according to Deputy Director Monica Wylie.
    Caelyn Pender, Mercury News, 27 May 2026
Verb
  • This tadpole-like object is a clump of denser nebulosity that hasn't been completely photo-dissociated by the Trifid's radiation field yet.
    Keith Cooper, Space.com, 24 Apr. 2026
  • Out the bottom, hypoaroused, includes being disengaged, numb, frozen, apathetic or even dissociated.
    Dr. Joel M. Rothaizer, Forbes.com, 5 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • Nigo has mostly favored coed shows during the men’s calendar in Paris since 2022, but had recently uncoupled them to give womenswear a bigger spotlight.
    Miles Socha, Footwear News, 18 Dec. 2025
  • In exchange for some $200 million per season, NBC and Peacock will assume dominion over the Sunday Night Baseball package from which ESPN uncoupled itself in February.
    Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 24 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Today, Ethiopia — Africa’s second most populous nation with over 135 million people — stands deeply divided, facing violent ethnic conflicts, restrictions on free speech and crackdowns on dissent.
    Nimi Princewill, CNN Money, 31 May 2026
  • At the broadest level, it is divided into the three independent interconnections.
    Sufan Jiang, Fortune, 30 May 2026
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“Unhooked.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unhooked. Accessed 5 Jun. 2026.

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