unpack
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These are often bound up under one general heading of "polarisation", but it's been illuminating to unpack them.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
Andrew Parker Felix, who represented Byassee’s family in the lawsuit, said it was complicated to unpack what had happened.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026
Join Dahlia and Mark as they unpack the Supreme Court term with some of the smartest legal analysts in the business.
From Slate ● Jun. 30, 2026
We unpack that and more with Lyubomirsky, below.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 1, 2026
They begin to unpack their lunches, which are both in the same cooler with a sea turtle on it.
From "Shouting at the Rain" by Lynda Mullaly Hunt
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RAND: As with the other experiments, it essentially just unpacks all the evidence that’s inconsistent with the claim.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 24, 2026
In the most recent episode of Amicus, Dahlia Lithwick unpacks the Supreme Court’s latest decision ruling against President Donald Trump’s global tariffs, with Mark Joseph Stern.
From Slate ● Feb. 26, 2026
The new six-part series unpacks the events that took place from a range of different perspectives to consider how people now view one of the most controversial literary rows in recent memory.
From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2025
Margaret Atwood unpacks the essays, speeches and appreciations in her deep and deeply entertaining new nonfiction collection, ‘Burning Question.’
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2025
In the kitchen, Auntie Nina unpacks the takeout.
From "Clairboyance" by Kristiana Kahakauwila
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"We spent one night in there - we hadn't even unpacked," she says.
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026
The opinion insists that courts do more than identify a historical cousin to a modern law by examining whether the analogy survives scrutiny once its details are unpacked.
From Slate ● Jun. 26, 2026
These were some of the questions that three prominent athlete stylists — Brittany Hampton, Courtney Mays and Dex Robinson — unpacked last week at the panel “Game Changers: Where Sport Meets Style.”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 18, 2026
“Leave those boxes unpacked and get out of your home. Join a class, walk to a coffee shop or hang out at the library.”
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 22, 2026
At my place around the seminar table I unpacked my notebook and every one of the required and recommended texts which I had already bought, stacking them in front of me like my credentials.
From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez
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While taking a break from unpacking the U-Haul on move-in day, Frank pointed to the incomplete home on their neighbor’s lot.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 20, 2026
His feeds are full of upbeat "get ready with me" videos, posts unpacking shopping hauls, and clips in which he talks about his life as a gay teen.
From BBC ● Jun. 16, 2026
Jonas reflects this thought process in his choreography by unpacking his experience as a child of divorce.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 13, 2026
And calculating what, exactly, any retailer might owe its customers would require unpacking the agreements they struck with suppliers and shippers to share the tariff burden.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 12, 2026
We’d taken on the job of unpacking the boxes.
From "Tangerine" by Edward Bloor
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