unloose
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I unloose the cow and leave her and her newborn to each other.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 22, 2018
And in a way this has stifled exactly the sort of catharsis the play is supposed to unloose.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 3, 2014
In the equivalent of flight attendants becoming pilots, caddies became players seven days a week, not merely on Monday mornings, when the clubs where they worked might unloose them onto largely vacant courses.
From New York Times ● Apr. 10, 2010
There was little doubt that the Red Army was ready to unloose the flood all along the Stettin-Dresden front.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The continents strain to unloose themselves, to drift reckless and heavy in the seas.
From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García
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With that said, the marinade is not strong enough to survive the avalanche of ingredients unloosed whenever you cut into Chipotle’s Mission-style burrito.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 15, 2023
Only once is the anger unloosed, in the opening credits, when Amen’s “Coma America” is played at such a volume that it sounds like a scream.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 22, 2019
The right to have the stays of gender unloosed, the right to breathe.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 8, 2018
Try as the author might to feel affinity for the unloosed and the wandering, it doesn't always happen.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2015
Jerry avoided fingers that tore at his sleeve and he unloosed the ball.
From "The Chocolate War" by Robert Cormier
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And, in the San Francisco Bay Area, burrowing rodents may be digging into entombed trash at a landfill-turned-park, unloosing explosive levels of methane.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 19, 2025
But, unfortunately, if the contagion spreads to all the elements of our planet, the consequences of unloosing such a cataclysm can only be viewed with apprehension.
From Salon ● Aug. 12, 2023
She started to think about how she could craft a fuller version of Iphigenia, perhaps by unloosing more of her internal monologue, and even by refusing to present her as a single, straightforward character.
From New York Times ● Nov. 2, 2021
The effect has been an unloosing of hysteria upon the land.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 3, 2018
Our Lord is in the centre, with two figures of Moses on each side, on the right unloosing his sandals, on the left striking the rock.
From Callista : a Tale of the Third Century by Newman, John Henry