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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unthread
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Because you can't get untied every time.
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Scrunching up in the back seat to untie her heels, Vergara managed to slip out of the shoes and right back into a pair of white Skechers sneakers.
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More than one hiker has inadvertently gotten the oil on their fingers when unlacing a boot, then transferred it to their forehead.
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Usher followed — reportedly only after unlacing his skates first — and allegedly went to meet Brown & Co. behind some buses parked outside.
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Horse Lords have always dealt in paradox, making tightly wound music that’s constantly uncoiling, fashioning propulsive riffs out of static, theoretical material, assembling sublimity from exposed nerves and raw, twitchy fibers.
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If one were to uncoil the long history of US engagement with Latin America, from the halls of Montezuma to the cells of CECOT, what was the most successful period?
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Then unroll the towel and allow the suit to dry flat.
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And then you're supposed to unroll this cake.
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The animator tries it, changes it, undoes it, and little by little the character comes alive.
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If email remains compromised, a hacker can keep undoing every recovery step.
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Meanwhile, adults can unwind at the spa, fitness center, adults-only pool, or Miramar Bar.
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Amirhosein Khorgooi | Reuters Early signs that the Strait of Hormuz is reopening have eased the most acute threat to global energy supplies, but economic damages from the nearly four months of war will take months to unwind, analysts warned.
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What at first presents itself as a survival horror, though, slowly unknots itself with twists and turns.
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In nearly eight years, the Republican has appointed nearly 60 percent of the state’s 418 justices, installing judges who will oversee murder trials, reshape constitutional law, and unknot thorny civil litigation for years, if not decades, to come.
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“Unthread.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unthread. Accessed 25 Jun. 2026.
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