unthread

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Recent Examples of unthread Use the valve-core remover to unthread the core counterclockwise, then remove it and set it aside. Joe Lindsey, Outside Online, 28 July 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unthread
Verb
  • The fashion icon then untied the skirt and wrapped it around Sailor’s neck showing off the outfit’s pants.
    Gabrielle Rockson, People.com, 5 Aug. 2025
  • 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.
    Doc Louallen, ABC News, 30 June 2025
Verb
  • More than one hiker has inadvertently gotten the oil on their fingers when unlacing a boot, then transferred it to their forehead.
    Jim Cobb, Field & Stream, 10 May 2023
  • Usher followed — reportedly only after unlacing his skates first — and allegedly went to meet Brown & Co. behind some buses parked outside.
    Vulture, Vulture, 8 May 2023
Verb
  • Over 100 snakes removed from homeowner’s garden in Sydney A sight like this would rattle the nerves of most homeowners … Read how a snake catcher uncoiled the mystery behind a backyard snake infestation.
    Alexandra Banner, CNN, 7 Feb. 2025
  • The snake uncoiled and hung down between the engine and the tire, looking at him with yellow beady eyes.
    Karen Bartunek, The Arizona Republic, 13 Nov. 2024
Verb
  • As a corn plant grows, the leaves unroll to reveal the tassel, the part that sheds pollen, explained Mark Licht, an associate professor of agronomy and an extension cropping systems specialist at Iowa State University.
    Jason Ma, Fortune, 25 Aug. 2025
  • Wayfair offers tips for removing folds and curls, which are an inevitable part of unrolling a new rug.
    Ali Faccenda, People.com, 27 July 2025
Verb
  • That, in turn, drew a lawsuit from Kairoi, an injunction pausing enforcement of the new statute, and then a vote by the Lakewood City Council to undo the statute.
    Justin Wingerter, Denver Post, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Of course, with so many personnel across the agency already gone, some damage can’t be undone, but it will be greatly ameliorated.
    Mike Hirschberg, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Ahead of you lies a day—or a week, a fall, or a lifetime—of leisurely unwinding.
    Miles Walls, Better Homes & Gardens, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Talks are focusing on unwinding that whole cut in gradual monthly increments and the group has reached an agreement in principle to raise output by at least 135,000 bpd from October, two sources said.
    Robert Ilich, CNN Money, 6 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • What at first presents itself as a survival horror, though, slowly unknots itself with twists and turns.
    Jessica Wang, EW.com, 20 Sep. 2024
  • 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.
    Matt Stout, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Dec. 2022

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“Unthread.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unthread. Accessed 12 Sep. 2025.

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