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Recent Examples of unstrapWhile experiencing a few minutes of microgravity, passengers have the opportunity to unstrap themselves from their seats to gaze out the capsule’s large windows and take in a stunning view of Earth.—Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 28 June 2025 Tommy, smartly, unstraps his now-useless weapon and flees.—Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 20 Apr. 2025 The women were briefly able to unstrap from their seats and experience several minutes of weightlessness after crossing the Kármán line, which is considered to be the boundary between the Earth's atmosphere and space.—Megan Cartwright, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 Apr. 2025 The women were allowed to unstrap from their seats for about four minutes to experience weightlessness before buckling up for their return.—Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 14 Apr. 2025 At this point, the women were permitted to safely unstrap from their seats to experience a few minutes of microgravity and gaze out the capsule’s large windows to take in a stunning view of Earth.—Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 14 Apr. 2025 Moments after separating from the booster, passengers are able to unstrap and float about the cabin while enjoying spectacular views of Earth.—Jennifer Earl, Analisa Novak, CBS News, 14 Apr. 2025 Virgin Galactic During about three minutes of weightlessness, as Unity arced over the top of its trajectory, the passengers were able to unstrap, float about the cabin and take in spectacular views of Earth far below, before returning to their seats for the plunge back into the lower atmosphere.—William Harwood, CBS News, 26 Jan. 2024 The investigation started on March 18, 2022, when a woman known in court records as Jane Doe discovered an iPhone with the video recording on inside of a physical therapy treatment room, after Wong specifically instructed her to unstrap her bra during a treatment, according to police.—Nate Gartrell, The Mercury News, 12 Jan. 2024
His bow tie wants to be untied, his vest buttons unfastened, his top hat removed.
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James Meyer,
Artforum,
1 May 2025
On Black Friday last year, with the Chiefs and Raiders reserved for a national TV audience, quarterback Patrick Mahomes slammed a football between his hands and angrily unfastened his chin strap before yelling toward the sideline.
The situation began to unfold after the ship was untied from the dock at 8:16 p.m. Three minutes later, the tugboat Charles D. McAllister assisted the Cuauhtémoc off the pier.
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Doc Louallen,
ABC News,
30 June 2025
But the audience reaction still reflects something interesting about the challenges of adaptation and how some great stories come with knots that cannot be untied.
But in 2010, Bernanke proposed something much more far-reaching: an initiative to disburse interest-free loans to major banks to unloose new tranches of cash throughout the economy.
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Chris Lehmann,
The New Republic,
19 Jan. 2022
In a long, cozy sequence in the season’s first episode, Sam cooks breakfast for her sleeping household, sizzling sausage and frying eggs in a private ritual that’s best appreciated before her daughters rise and unloose chaos.
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Alexandra Schwartz,
The New Yorker,
13 Apr. 2020
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