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unstop

[uhn-stop] / ʌnˈstɒp /








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Will we unstop our ears and learn from the mistakes of the past?

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 9, 2022

Mitchell's curiosity, his readiness to be interested, seems to unstop his subjects: the genie of their speech pours out.

From The Guardian Jun. 22, 2012

This week the FCC is going to unstop the bottleneck that has made calling internationally the only exorbitantly priced relic in the telephone system.

From Time Magazine Archive

"One flute will serve only to unstop your ears and dissolve the caul from off your eyes, so that you may hear and see the truths that will be laid before you."

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin

Must we not open our eyes to see, and unstop our ears to hear?

From An Introduction to Philosophy by George Stuart Fullerton

The infernal machine will continue largely unstopped because there is a huge market for its poison.

From Salon Apr. 26, 2023

Gaterud, on her farm deep in the mountains of Humboldt County, said she feels betrayed by California and angry that she suffers while those flouting the law go unstopped.

From Seattle Times Oct. 3, 2022

If the abnormal cells continue to divide unstopped, they can damage the tissues around them, spread to other parts of the body, and eventually result in death.

From Textbooks Jun. 19, 2013

When he comes to the cascading Shakespearean poetic arias, Burton is a Welsh singer of unstopped breath and unconfined eloquence.

From Time Magazine Archive

Thus I watched, while Taku-Wakin played for his life with the people's minds, and Opata watched neither the people nor him, but the unstopped mouth of the water-bottle.

From The Trail Book by Mary Hunter Austin

People raced to throw life jackets out, but the unstopping wind seemed to toss the jackets back.

From New York Times Jul. 20, 2018

O’Brien tumbles into her characters’ voices; the prose has a life-filled, unstopping locomotion: “her little Mini, her chariot of freedom.”

From The New Yorker Apr. 25, 2016

Hundreds of protesters, who had promised to be a visible presence here and filled several sections of the arena, let out an elated, unstopping cheer.

From New York Times Mar. 11, 2016

He realises that he is disconcerted above all by their unstopping busyness.

From The Guardian Mar. 1, 2013

And we also ourselves were sensible of a great pain which attacked us, so that several of the bravest came out of their cots and began by unstopping the chimney, and afterwards opening the door.

From Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part I. The Exploration of the World by Dora Leigh




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