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unscrew

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A bunch of workers rushed over to The Dessoug with tools, and they started unscrewing plates on the side of the hull.

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He unscrewed the loop and the hollow coin split open.

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"There's been an army of people for the last 48 hours unscrewing anything they could," he added.

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They can navigate mazes, use tools and unscrew jars — sometimes from the inside out.

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I wouldn’t have expected to become so interested in screws being unscrewed, tabs unbent, machines reduced to component parts, cleaned and painted, with missing parts newly fabricated.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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