unhook
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You have to come to a meeting spot at the border, unhook all your trucks and trailers, bring in another truck to bring it in to the U.S.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 2, 2024
While trains and trucks also transport EVs, isolating and extinguishing fires is easier as workers can unhook a rail car and a trucker can pull over, said Frazee.
From Reuters ● Jul. 27, 2023
When doctors said it was time, they signed the necessary paperwork allowing the staff to unhook him from the machines.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 14, 2019
Nichols invests Beatrice with a sense of acute antennae and also, a weary steadiness: She won’t let Eddie off the hook, but she’s too tied to him to unhook herself, either.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 22, 2016
The man from the Volkswagen had opened the driver’s side door of the van and was trying to unhook Liam’s seat belt.
From "The Darkest Minds" by Alexandra Bracken
He reels in the baitfish, unhooks it, rehooks it with the shark hook, and tosses the bobber, leader, and bait back out, before handing the shark rod to me.
From Slate ● Sep. 1, 2022
Mallory Sarver unhooks one, loosens the drawstring, reaches in and pulls out a tiny bird with a gray head, a brilliant yellow belly with black streaks and white stripes on its black wings.
From Washington Times ● May 26, 2018
He reels in both lines, unhooks the fish and transfers it to his son’s rig.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 19, 2016
The flap is connected with a unique clip that unhooks with a downward squeeze.
From Time ● May 10, 2016
Aimee unhooks the rope that everyone must wait behind and says, “C’mon, Delsie and Ronan! The director said I can take you backstage. I’ll show you the costumes and stuff.”
From "Shouting at the Rain" by Lynda Mullaly Hunt
Getting unhooked from the era of easy money could bring some headaches along the way.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 2, 2026
Once he’d parked the buggy, he unhooked the black box from its compartment, tucking this precious cargo underneath his arm.
From Slate ● Sep. 30, 2023
Before the start of a news conference on Wednesday, officials unhooked their masks in quick succession, a staged gesture that deviated from past Covid-19 protocols.
From New York Times ● Dec. 1, 2022
Hawkins said the incident ended peacefully after some four hours as the Iranians unhooked the tow line to the drone and left the area as the American forces were nearby.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 30, 2022
Shorty unhooked the tiedown cables and helped Flossie into the plane.
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
Six months later, pain still radiated from his back into his legs as he ran up and down the floor of a warehouse hooking and unhooking cows from milking machines.
From New York Times ● Dec. 28, 2023
It can be physical work — it takes multiple people, for example, to turn a patient without unhooking any equipment.
From New York Times ● Feb. 15, 2022
He argues that endangering the subsidy would be "like unhooking a patient from intensive care".
From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2021
He soon freed himself by pushing his tongue into the blanket, which Noel now knows means he was unhooking his tongue spines from the blanket loops.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 29, 2016
Bridge went up first, unhooking the latch on a second little door at the top and pushing it open to find herself on the roof of Sherm’s house.
From "Goodbye Stranger" by Rebecca Stead
