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
In Thomson’s view, a pregnant individual’s right to bodily autonomy permits them to unhook from the violinist, so to speak, no matter anyone else’s view of what is noble or moral or humane.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 3, 2022
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
I know I shouldn’t be excited, but I unhook the AffloVest anyway, jumping up to grab it off the floor.
From "Five Feet Apart" by Rachael Lippincott
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
Gale appears in the doorway, and Johanna neatly unhooks herself and reattaches me to the morphling drip.
From "Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins
He unhooked the trailer from the cab and drove to safety, leaving the trailer full of frozen meat on the side of the road.
From Slate ● May 13, 2026
Getting unhooked from the era of easy money could bring some headaches along the way.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 2, 2026
They later unhooked him from the car and put him on the ground to wait for a shuttle to take him to a processing station.
From Washington Times ● Feb. 26, 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
The old man unhooked the fish, re-baited the line with another sardine and tossed it over.
From "The Old Man and The Sea" by Ernest Hemingway
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
He argues that endangering the subsidy would be "like unhooking a patient from intensive care".
From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2021
It’s simply about unhooking your brain from the harmful routines it has adopted around this particular device, and hooking it to better things.
From New York Times ● Feb. 23, 2019
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
Carefully, Tristran unwound the silver chain, unhooking it from the root, while stroking the bird's ruffled plumage with his left hand.
From "Stardust" by Neil Gaiman
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