as in to unload
to empty or rid of cargo
unpacked the car the minute they got back from vacation
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Recent Examples of unpack
There’s a deeper layer to unpack around control, identity and self-confidence, too.
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Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 6 May 2026
DeRose and Salguero unpack the rhetoric of conservative white Evangelicals and discuss what happens when the government uses scripture to justify policy.
—NPR, 3 May 2026
Featuring the good, the bad and the ugly, ‘Look of the Week’ is a regular series dedicated to unpacking the most talked about outfit of the last seven days.
—Oscar Holland, CNN Money, 3 May 2026
And that leaves us with a lot to unpack.
—Armando Salguero Outkick, FOXNews.com, 29 Apr. 2026
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Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 6 May 2026
DeRose and Salguero unpack the rhetoric of conservative white Evangelicals and discuss what happens when the government uses scripture to justify policy.
—NPR, 3 May 2026
Featuring the good, the bad and the ugly, ‘Look of the Week’ is a regular series dedicated to unpacking the most talked about outfit of the last seven days.
—Oscar Holland, CNN Money, 3 May 2026
And that leaves us with a lot to unpack.
—Armando Salguero Outkick, FOXNews.com, 29 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unpack
unload
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The New Corolla, an oil tanker that traveled through the Strait of Hormuz before heading to California, recently unloaded its cargo in Long Beach.—
Angela Rodriguez,
Sacbee.com,
13 May 2026
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Roughly 60 years ago, I was paid $12 an hour to load and unload trucks.—
Letters to the Editor,
The Orlando Sentinel,
13 May 2026
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“Unpack.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unpack. Accessed 18 May. 2026.
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