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unloose

[uhn-loos] / ʌnˈlus /


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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

The continents strain to unloose themselves, to drift reckless and heavy in the seas.

From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García

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

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




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