unhinge

It inherently asks us to consume these people and needs us to in order to make money, but sometimes consumers want to unhinge their jaws and eat these stars whole, a frightening and unsettling behavior.

From Slate ● Aug. 5, 2026

The troubles at Credit Suisse threatened to unhinge Switzerland’s position as a leading financial market, and the takeover left the country with only one internationally important bank: UBS.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 24, 2024

Snakes can’t really unhinge their jaws, but for some, that doesn’t get in the way of swallowing absurdly large prey.

From New York Times ● Aug. 31, 2023

However, those 134 baseball writers just could not unhinge themselves from the fantasy of baseball long enough to open their eyes and cast an impassive vote.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 26, 2022

She had plenty of other worries to unhinge her.

From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood

They have shown they can link up on the pitch and all play well, but there always seems to be something around the corner that unhinges them.

From BBC ● Feb. 2, 2024

“Kwon is the one that unhinges us a little bit,” defensive coordinator Jeff Ulbrich said.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 16, 2022

While all viruses find ways to evade the body's defenses, a growing field of research suggests that the coronavirus unhinges the immune system more profoundly than previously realized.

From Salon ● Mar. 8, 2021

It’s just before London, like a snake, unhinges its huge mechanical jaws and gulps down a small Bavarian mining town — people, bricks and all: “Prepare to ingest.”

From Washington Post ● Dec. 12, 2018

Zero is so powerful because it unhinges the laws of physics.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife

There’s a glorious power scream at the end that parallels similar unrestrained, slightly unhinged sounds from the guitars.

From Salon ● Aug. 25, 2026

If anything, expect much more unhinged measures in the name of a cure-all.

From Slate ● Jul. 31, 2026

It’s being remade with Margaret Qualley and the main reason for the movie’s notoriety remains Isabelle Adjani’s unhinged, incantatory performance, a collection of freak-outs that’s still unmatched.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2026

Perhaps we really do live in a “demented slaughterhouse of a world,” as the unhinged newsman Howard Beale says in one of his apocalyptic broadcasts, and have all along.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2026

I said, too unhinged to laugh at my gram- mar.

From "Stargirl" by Jerry Spinelli

While inconsistency has always been an irritating feature of his game, at his best Traore is capable of unhinging defences with his pace alone.

From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2022

Gardner-Johnson smiled and responded playfully to recent questions about his penchant for unhinging receivers.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 12, 2021

The amount of fear he’s feeling now has got to be unhinging him.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 25, 2020

But more significantly, the fact that the movie about halfway through heads off into fictional territory, that would be a little bit unhinging for a teenager if he began thinking that it was true.

From Slate ● Aug. 20, 2020

At the end of these recurrent dreams, they watched the grim-lipped officer and the chaplain move toward the unhinging annunciation at the front door.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy