unlatch
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Tesla is facing a fresh investigation from U.S. automotive-safety regulators over concerns that it may be difficult to unlatch the doors of some Model 3 sedans in the case of an emergency.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 24, 2025
The cages were padlocked, a measure to keep the birds from figuring out how to unlatch their enclosures and escape.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 10, 2023
During the workweek, regulars slide in to occupy one of 10 seats at the bar at Lynn’s Motel on State Route 115 in Effort almost as soon as the doors unlatch at 4 p.m.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 26, 2023
"If you open this door and unlatch this thing and you slide this over, you'd look down in there and in between a bunch of nails you'd find my name," she says.
From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2020
When they see a police car coming or that officers are conducting a sweep, they unlatch their front gates and usher migrants in to hide in their gardens and backyards.
From "Enrique's Journey" by Sonia Nazario
Even without a stage, that is theater: a performance that unlatches the mind.
From New York Times ● Jan. 12, 2021
At that moment, I grabbed the girl around the torso and pulled her away from the cage and it unlatches from her claw.
From BBC ● Mar. 10, 2019
She unlatches her purse, clutches his slippers, slides them into the dark can, hides them between bags of trash.
From Salon ● Feb. 23, 2013
He rings #2 and a returning buzz echoes from inside and the door unlatches.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
Dr. Martin unlatches a cage near the back gate.
From "A Bird Will Soar" by Alison Green Myers
Tesla has issued a software update for more than 1.8 million vehicles in the US to fix a faulty notification system for unlatched bonnets, also known as hoods in the US.
From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2024
That can cause it to malfunction and stay unlatched even when the hood is closed.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 28, 2022
He barked, panted and drooled until she unlatched the door just a few minutes later.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 28, 2021
And in 1915, a monkey dressed nattily in men’s clothes — for which I could find no explanation, which was very shoddy journalism indeed — found an unlatched cage door and went walkabout.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2021
Restless, she went to the windows overlooking the courtyard and unlatched them, curling up on the window seat.
From "Huntress" by Malinda Lo
An "extremely intelligent" bear that injured four people in northern Japan remains at large as of Friday, after apparently unlatching a window while evading capture and turning on a water tap, officials said.
From Barron's ● Jun. 5, 2026
Activists “liberated” captive mink as they have for years, sneaking onto mink farms in Utah and Idaho and unlatching the cages of 2,000 mink, who fled into the moonlight.
From New York Times ● Jan. 19, 2022
The crew undocked from the station on schedule, first retracting cables that supplied power from the space station, then unlatching 12 hooks that had held the two together for more than two months.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 1, 2020
Then he heard a sound no paramedic ever wants to hear: the click of a patient’s shoulder harness unlatching.
From New York Times ● Jul. 8, 2015
I remove my helmet and unlatch myself and hurry to his side, unlatching his helmet too.
From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera
