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unscrewed

verb

past tense of unscrew

as in screwed

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Sometimes a lid isn’t screwed tightly, and your foundation proves its worth all over the inside of your bag.

— Carin Ryan, Travel + Leisure, 15 Sep. 2026
Like her, Americans are also so tired of being screwed by an administration that’s not only grossly incompetent and cruel but corrupt as well.

— Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 6 Sep. 2026

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Banks, dressed in a blue suit and tie, swiveled back and forth watching his lawyer and Hester, like watching a tennis match.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 2 Sep. 2026
France’s left-back, on his way from Aston Villa to Paris Saint-Germain this summer, instinctively swivelled and attempted to clear, taking out the incoming Yamal with a swipe through the thigh in the process.

— Jack Lang, New York Times, 14 July 2026

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The designer pivoted from the vertiginous styles featured in the two previous collection to styles intended to transition easily from day to night, made with a playful and girly sensibility.

— Jaden Thompson, Footwear News, 30 Sep. 2026
She’s pivoted through the various mediums within social media and just writing on the internet.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 28 Sep. 2026

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For most of the history of these tours, Ringo rotated in a new crew of All Starrs every time out.

— Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 2 Oct. 2026
Using a technique called principal component analysis, the team examined subtle brightness changes taking place as SIMP 0136 rotated, distilling down a complicated dataset into a few patterns responsible for most of the variation.

— Stefanie Waldek, Space.com, 21 Sep. 2026

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