unleash
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The NHC warned of the storm surge Hurricane Polo could unleash, which it said could be accompanied by large and destructive waves.
From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026
The U.S. has long provided Ecuador and other Latin American governments with intelligence, equipment and training to help fight powerful criminal groups that send drugs north and unleash violence at home.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
According to GlobalSecurity, a private nonpartisan research organization on defense issues, it’s unlikely Meink was talking about any sorts of “kinetic” weapons—i.e., weapons that unleash bullets or bombs—since the resulting debris could also be self-destructive.
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
Furthermore, Al-Hussainy said the Treasury and Fed likely will be more concerned about the potential for bond-market tumult to unleash financial stability concerns.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 2026
People who make good choices in life, they unleash that holiness on the world.
From "Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet" by Joanne Proulx
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Together with the car’s Launch Control function, the Push-to-Pass feature unleashes stupefying acceleration—0-60 mph in 2.4 seconds, officially.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 2026
In the snap, Stokes unleashes a bouncer to a flinching Mohammed Siraj, the India tailender.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
“The Beloved’s” actual director, Rodrigo Sorogoyen, unleashes his leads to become a tag team of destruction, each blaming the other for what’s going wrong on set.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 22, 2026
He fielded a series of questions on Iran, Cuba and China with a relaxed style and dashes of humor -- and little of the invective that Trump often unleashes in his briefing room appearances.
From Barron's ● May 6, 2026
A sideways glance at her unleashes a stream of tears I didn't even know stood in my eyes.
From "What the Night Sings" by Vesper Stamper
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To tackle it OpenAI unleashed a swarm of 10,000 artificial-intelligence agents, which took 88 hours to arrive at the result and an additional 17 hours to confirm it via the computerized verification program Lean.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
They’ll also see that the greed unleashed during 19th century America resource-gathering isn’t gone.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
Ferguson also said the individuals who developed AI agents would be held responsible for any wrongdoing unleashed by the models.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
In the southern port city of Ashdod, the artist behind the mural of Abraham and Szor unleashed a torrent of insults at the filmmakers, who are currently abroad.
From Barron's ● Sep. 17, 2026
Mom paid at the door and unleashed her children on the buffet while she found a table.
From "George" by Alex Gino
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“We must avoid making the same mistakes that we did 15 or 20 years ago with social media. At that time we didn’t fully understand what we were unleashing on society,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
Polo, a Category 4 hurricane with sustained winds of 140 mph, is on track to make landfall in Baja California Sur on Monday, unleashing heavy rains and flooding there.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2026
It comes as a strengthening El Nino pattern, expected to be the most intense in decades, has begun unleashing extreme weather across the globe.
From Barron's ● Sep. 9, 2026
On Wednesday, part of a SpaceX rocket about the size of a bus slammed into the Moon, unleashing a stream of debris.
From Barron's ● Aug. 7, 2026
He had no inkling that his adopted city would, indeed, witness the unleashing of the new science of genetics, but in its most grisly form in history.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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