as in unloaded
to empty or rid of cargo
unpacked the car the minute they got back from vacation
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Recent Examples of unpacked
Earlier this week, BFI London Film Fest director Kristy Matheson unpacked her ambitious 2025 program with THR.
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Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 9 Oct. 2025
At Sourcing Journal’s Fall Summit, executives from Flexport, OEC Group and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey unpacked what shifts in tariffs, consumption and carrier partnerships have meant for logistics this year.
—Sarah Jones, Sourcing Journal, 2 Oct. 2025
Speaking to Variety ahead of the lineup presentation at a swank Paris event on Thursday, Thomas Dubois, the head of France and Japan at Amazon MGM Studios, unpacked the streamer’s plans to try new things, as well as balance out comedy, new romance and prestige drama.
—Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 25 Sep. 2025
Adama, Triple-A, and Ghost settled into their stations, plugged laptops into antennas, and unpacked the Mavics.
—Ken Harbaugh, The Atlantic, 15 Sep. 2025
The character — and those punchlines — carry a different meaning today, as unpacked by this documentary about nonconformity and being seen.
—Chris Foran, jsonline.com, 3 Sep. 2025
In a 2023 post, NATO's Strategic Warfare Development Command unpacked a relatively new concept known as cognitive warfare.
—Mary Crossan, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2025
Investment strategist Joachim Klement highlighted the results, and Journalist Andrew Curry unpacked them in an analysis on his personal blog, thenextwave (also reposted by Resilience).
—Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 22 Aug. 2025
There is a lot more there that might need to be unpacked in the offseason.
—Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Aug. 2025
Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 9 Oct. 2025
At Sourcing Journal’s Fall Summit, executives from Flexport, OEC Group and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey unpacked what shifts in tariffs, consumption and carrier partnerships have meant for logistics this year.
—Sarah Jones, Sourcing Journal, 2 Oct. 2025
Speaking to Variety ahead of the lineup presentation at a swank Paris event on Thursday, Thomas Dubois, the head of France and Japan at Amazon MGM Studios, unpacked the streamer’s plans to try new things, as well as balance out comedy, new romance and prestige drama.
—Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 25 Sep. 2025
Adama, Triple-A, and Ghost settled into their stations, plugged laptops into antennas, and unpacked the Mavics.
—Ken Harbaugh, The Atlantic, 15 Sep. 2025
The character — and those punchlines — carry a different meaning today, as unpacked by this documentary about nonconformity and being seen.
—Chris Foran, jsonline.com, 3 Sep. 2025
In a 2023 post, NATO's Strategic Warfare Development Command unpacked a relatively new concept known as cognitive warfare.
—Mary Crossan, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2025
Investment strategist Joachim Klement highlighted the results, and Journalist Andrew Curry unpacked them in an analysis on his personal blog, thenextwave (also reposted by Resilience).
—Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 22 Aug. 2025
There is a lot more there that might need to be unpacked in the offseason.
—Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unpacked
unloaded
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But Judge brought his hands inside the baseball and unloaded.—
Chris Kirschner,
New York Times,
8 Oct. 2025
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The Buffalo rapper opened the front camera on Instagram Live and unloaded his thoughts.—
Armon Sadler,
VIBE.com,
7 Oct. 2025
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“Unpacked.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unpacked. Accessed 14 Oct. 2025.
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