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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.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 5, 2024

Vance asked as he unscrewed the plastic cap from the bottle.

From Salon • Aug. 5, 2024

Instead, the clamp nut had unscrewed from the barrel.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 5, 2023

The shaft that controlled the tail rotor then unscrewed and became detached as a result, which in turn caused the helicopter to spin out of the pilot's control.

From BBC • Sep. 5, 2023

What he did was watch closely as she unscrewed it.

From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman




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