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unfurl

[uhn-furl] / ʌnˈfɜrl /
VERB
unroll
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But only once, in 2018, did two plants actually unfurl on the same day.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026

Inside the 25,000-seater Estadio Hidalgo in east-central Mexico, fans unfurl a tifo featuring a miner.

From BBC ● Jun. 2, 2026

Alternating every two or three chapters, Ms. Seve and the actor Caleb Teaupa unfurl a blood- and brine-soaked epic set in and around the islands of long-ago Polynesia.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 12, 2026

Geopolitical events will unfurl as we watch from afar.

From MarketWatch ● Dec. 15, 2025

And with that he bade Halbarad unfurl the great standard which he had brought; and behold! it was black, and if there was any device upon it, it was hidden in the darkness.

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien

Across the next four days, the future unfurls: Neuroscientist Anil Seth says it’s highly unlikely A.I. will gain consciousness.

From Slate ● May 8, 2026

The answer unfurls in your question: Do you believe that you ethically owe half of the winnings to your friend?

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 7, 2026

Samsung's Galaxy Z TriFold, when fully opened, unfurls to roughly the size of an iPad.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 31, 2026

But it does push the limits of belief when a tale that supposedly unfurls over four years in Hawkins takes nearly a decade to complete.

From Salon ● Nov. 24, 2025

She takes out a bright orange rope, unfurls it in midair, and tosses it around the monster’s neck.

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer

Yesterday, over 18 painstaking hours, teams of French and British conservators and British Museum staff unfurled the 70-metre long artwork from the folding stand where it had been concertinaed, surrounded by protective mattress-type padding.

From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026

However, investors are still waiting for confirmation that the satellites—which are unusually large —have unfurled and are operating correctly, which could take several weeks.

From Barron's ● Jun. 17, 2026

World War II saw that inaugural edition scrapped, but when the festival finally unfurled in 1946, studio films such as Alfred Hitchcock’s “Notorious” and George Cukor’s “Gaslight” were part of the program.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 12, 2026

This year, fans unfurled an extensive tifo display marking the 120th anniversary of the Courrieres mine disaster, Europe's deadliest accident of its kind, which killed 1099 local miners.

From BBC ● Apr. 10, 2026

Clouds of smoke unfurled beneath the wide green rims as the leaves darkened and withered in the flames, their words becoming faint distorted lines before they turned to ash.

From "The Reader" by Traci Chee

Along with being an origin story and an alien hunt unfurling in a 2016-set timeline, “Lanterns” grounds itself in a murder mystery that defines its 2026 plot running in parallel.

From Salon ● Oct. 5, 2026

Even if this is the end of the conflict, the economic shock is still unfurling.

From Slate ● Jun. 18, 2026

BOGOTA, Colombia—They were on their feet long before the final out was recorded—beer sloshing, tri-color flags unfurling, voices cracking—and not just for Tuesday night’s baseball victory.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 18, 2026

She imagines the journey of her characters unfurling in a spiral, with the story extending downward into the darkness before rising back up.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 14, 2025

The hollow took a few lumbering steps forward to match the ones we’d taken back, its tongues unfurling more and then splitting apart, one coming toward me, another toward Enoch, and the third toward Emma.

From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs


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