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Recent Examples of unthreadUse the valve-core remover to unthread the core counterclockwise, then remove it and set it aside.—Joe Lindsey, Outside Online, 28 July 2020 For disc brakes Open and unthread the thru-axle and slide it out of the hub, then lower the wheel out of the dropouts.—Joe Lindsey, Outside Online, 3 June 2020
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.
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.
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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.
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Karen Bartunek,
The Arizona Republic,
13 Nov. 2024
Since returning to the White House, President Donald Trump has undone many of the Biden-era immigration policies.
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Ana Ceballos,
Miami Herald,
28 June 2025
As the Catholic archdiocese hunts for ways to contract, it’s been shedding churches wholesale and having no trouble finding buyers that are tuned to the doings — or undoing — of religious organizations.
What at first presents itself as a survival horror, though, slowly unknots itself with twists and turns.
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Jessica Wang,
EW.com,
20 Sep. 2024
The idea is that a meditative approach can allow people to feel with resilience and unknot the ropework of repression without being flooded into despair.
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