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unhinge

[uhn-hinj] / ʌnˈhɪndʒ /


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It inherently asks us to consume these people and needs us to in order to make money, but sometimes consumers want to unhinge their jaws and eat these stars whole, a frightening and unsettling behavior.

From Slate ● Aug. 5, 2026

The troubles at Credit Suisse threatened to unhinge Switzerland’s position as a leading financial market, and the takeover left the country with only one internationally important bank: UBS.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 24, 2024

Snakes can’t really unhinge their jaws, but for some, that doesn’t get in the way of swallowing absurdly large prey.

From New York Times ● Aug. 31, 2023

He walked up to me, opened his mouth so wide it seemed to unhinge like a snake’s, blasted out a truly heroic sneeze and covered me with a fine mist.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 3, 2020

Like some members of the reptile family, dwarf males can unhinge their jaws, allowing them to ingest several pounds of earth a second.

From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer

They have shown they can link up on the pitch and all play well, but there always seems to be something around the corner that unhinges them.

From BBC ● Feb. 2, 2024

“Kwon is the one that unhinges us a little bit,” defensive coordinator Jeff Ulbrich said.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 16, 2022

While all viruses find ways to evade the body's defenses, a growing field of research suggests that the coronavirus unhinges the immune system more profoundly than previously realized.

From Salon ● Mar. 8, 2021

That unleashed force is plied most artfully here to create a portrait of how grief unhinges, disarranges and heightens everyday life.

From New York Times ● Apr. 17, 2019

Zero is so powerful because it unhinges the laws of physics.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife

Perhaps we really do live in a “demented slaughterhouse of a world,” as the unhinged newsman Howard Beale says in one of his apocalyptic broadcasts, and have all along.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2026

The film caught fire before it was even released, fueled by a marketing strategy that featured an interactive billboard with increasingly unhinged messages from Nikki and an automated hotline for fans to text with her.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 28, 2026

They have what few candidates get: the opportunity to be unhinged and distracting in the opposite direction of someone like RFK Jr.

From Slate ● Jun. 18, 2026

Rudd seems to have been told he’s in one, playing Rick’s humiliation so large that he looks unhinged, his face covered in cuts and bruises of his own doing that, distractingly, never seem to heal.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 28, 2026

Where the unhinged once came to offer their prayers, scholars now gather to research the collective insanity of war.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan

While inconsistency has always been an irritating feature of his game, at his best Traore is capable of unhinging defences with his pace alone.

From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2022

Gardner-Johnson smiled and responded playfully to recent questions about his penchant for unhinging receivers.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 12, 2021

The amount of fear he’s feeling now has got to be unhinging him.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 25, 2020

But more significantly, the fact that the movie about halfway through heads off into fictional territory, that would be a little bit unhinging for a teenager if he began thinking that it was true.

From Slate ● Aug. 20, 2020

At the end of these recurrent dreams, they watched the grim-lipped officer and the chaplain move toward the unhinging annunciation at the front door.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy




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