unfix
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She was home from boarding school for the summer, and day after day the sun rose into a cloudless sky, from which Jane couldn’t unfix the word “cerulean,” which she’d learned in the art room.
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 2, 2012
The order was marching by149 fours to fix or unfix bayonets.
From The heart of happy hollow A collection of stories by Paul Laurence Dunbar
Dawn, and the men unfix bayonets as they step down from the fire-step and clean their rifles with pull-throughs.
From Tales of War by Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, Baron Dunsany
Fix and unfix bayonet are executed, with promptness and regularity but not in cadence.
From Manual for Noncommissioned Officers and Privates of Infantry of the Army of the United States, 1917 To be used by Engineer companies (dismounted) and Coast Artillery companies for Infantry instruction and training by United States War Department
Instead, we fix and unfix bayonets every ten minutes and make martial noises.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, February 7, 1917 by Various
If the federal government were the only entity who could file these claims, then every small hotel chain with a broken ramp might go unfixed.
From Slate ● May 19, 2026
The BBC has been shown a significant - and unfixed - cyber-security risk in a popular AI coding platform.
From BBC ● Feb. 12, 2026
Millions of cars recalled between 2015 and 2024 for air bags that may not deploy remain unfixed, the Journal reported.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 23, 2025
Even though the National Park Service requested a patch, the report said, the room was still in service months later with the unfixed leak.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2024
“And I ain’t a master-mind,” Joe resumed, when he had unfixed his look, and got back to his whisker.
From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
Most brokerage houses, while technically unfixing their rates, still charge about the same fees as before on small trades on a take-it-or-leave-it basis.
From Time Magazine Archive
Something has been fixed at last, and I most certainly shall not consent to any further unfixing.
From Ayala's Angel by Anthony Trollope
By this time some fifty officers and blue-jackets were about the roof and ledge, some discussing, others unfixing lanterns and festoons, with shouted directions.
From The Lord of the Sea by M. P. (Matthew Phipps) Shiel
Everything is fixed, and there is no unfixing.
From Mary Cary "Frequently Martha" by Kate Langley Bosher
A few moments were suffered to elapse: and then, unfixing the haulser from the stem, and bringing it aft to the stern, we commenced hauling.
From My Schools and Schoolmasters or The Story of my Education. by Hugh Miller
I mean by it not an intellectuall spirit, but a fine, unfixt, attenuate, subtill, ethereall substance, the immediate vehicle of plasticall or sensitive life.
From Democritus Platonissans by Henry More
