unfasten
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For 12 days, we shared every moment and, surrounded by the kind of beauty only a remote bay in the Pacific could afford, I felt something unfasten in my chest.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 8, 2024
To serve the cheesecake, run a knife around the outer edge to loosen it from the pan, then carefully unfasten the sides of the pan and transfer the cheesecake to a cake plate or stand.
From Fox News ● Dec. 16, 2021
Operators are supposed to unfasten all of the seat belts after each ride so the next load of people can be buckled in.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 25, 2021
Turn off the heat, allow the pressurized steam to escape, then unfasten the lid and check for doneness; you want your beans to be very tender and quite creamy.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 3, 2018
I unfasten the wire next to the pine tree, legs like rubber, hardly holding me up.
From "Shiloh" by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
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The bearded guy in front of us unfastens his earflaps and says, chuckling, “Haven’t you guys ever stood in line for beer before?”
From Washington Post ● Sep. 6, 2017
One Atlanta man unfastens his seat belt, and turns off his hearing aid, as soon as he starts his new Impala.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Home for the busy man about Brazil these days is where he unfastens his seat belt.
From Time Magazine Archive
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I give it a press and the clasp unfastens.
From "Amari and the Night Brothers" by B.B. Alston
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Then she unfastens the tiny clasp in her right ear and surrenders the other pearl.
From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García
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But the giant birds will be unfastened from the ceiling on Friday to make way for a new mystery exhibit, airport authorities said.
From BBC ● May 5, 2025
The maintainers next unfastened the warhead from the missile and placed it in a specialized truck.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 19, 2023
Sempill and Dollfus, whose belts were unfastened, were flung out.
From Slate ● Aug. 2, 2022
At the end of the transect, Riis stopped at another parlous roadside spot, unfastened the net and removed the small bag at its tip.
From New York Times ● Nov. 27, 2018
Malcolm unfastened them and pulled back the top.
From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman
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Kondo brought garments to life, like kites in the sky with voluminous silhouettes created by fastening and unfastening buttons.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 20, 2024
He must have disembarked in Cold Lake, where they had stopped so briefly that Vaughn hadn’t even bothered unfastening her seat belt.
From Slate ● Jul. 30, 2022
Fastidiously spend a couple of minutes unfastening all the straps before you can sit down?
From The Guardian ● Sep. 19, 2019
Could this be the start of a major unfastening of the strictures she lives under?
From New York Times ● May 4, 2016
Come on, come on, she thought, unfastening her belt to slip the knot free.
From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart
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