as in to untie
to disengage the knotted parts of
unlashed the ropes which secured the crate in the bed of the truck
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Even Jones now agrees a special session may be necessary this summer to untie the legal knot.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
23 Apr. 2026 -
More intricate knots can be designed to untie in stages, resulting in sequential movements similar to a gymnastic routine.—
Aman Tripathi,
Interesting Engineering,
23 Apr. 2026
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The Padres, undone the past two seasons by a lack of power, have no choice but to believe in the two-time Silver Slugger.—
Dennis Lin,
New York Times,
27 Apr. 2026
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Its goal is to undo the founding fathers' vision of India as a secular country, home to people with many faiths.—
Rob Schmitz,
NPR,
25 Apr. 2026
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If your button-down outfit is in need of a little spice, a quick trick is to unfasten the top and slip out a single shoulder.—
Sri Rain Stewart,
InStyle,
13 Jan. 2026
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Skinny Pedro unfastened his seat belt and turned his seat around to face me.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
12 Jan. 2026
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The Supreme Court loosened a provision of the Voting Rights Act that restricted redrawing congressional districts on the basis of race.—
Lia Russell,
Sacbee.com,
29 Apr. 2026
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Erdoğan centralized power around himself but also pushed for loosening the country’s borders and extending Turkey’s influence into the region—into Syria, Iraq, Libya, Azerbaijan, and beyond—as a crucial part of Turkey’s new mission and ideology.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
29 Apr. 2026
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This work unbinds the body from centuries of Western imagery, freeing it from representation and opening it to abstraction.—
Mame-Diarra Niang,
Artforum,
2 Nov. 2025
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But for Buddhists, dying is an opportunity to unbind from the past and start again.—
Amanda Whiting,
Vulture,
16 Mar. 2025
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“Unlash.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unlash. Accessed 1 May. 2026.
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