unzip

Typically, the export you get from a platform will be a giant bundle of files you can unzip and store on your drive.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026

Scientists have long suggested tectonic plates could unzip like this.

From Science Magazine ● Jan. 9, 2024

But when Arabidopsis seedlings sense they're under attack, special enzymes called RNA helicases are produced that unzip the hairpins so the ribosomes can pass through and continue scanning along the mRNA molecule.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 21, 2023

Truly, it was criminal how my mother’s purse strings would not unzip.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 21, 2023

“Oh,” I say, then I sit down on the floor, unzip the suitcase, and dump my trash bag of stuff inside.

From "The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman" by Gennifer Choldenko

She unzips a cloth pouch of ground tobacco leaf mixed with sage and cedar.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 10, 2023

Replication in prokaryotes starts from a sequence of nucleotides on the chromosome called the origin of replication—the point at which the DNA opens up or unzips.

From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022

"It is like he just unzips his head and let's everything fall on the table. That is no way to run an economy," thundered Mr Morrison.

From BBC ● May 19, 2022

He takes the two proffered meals, kneels, unzips his bag and carefully places them inside.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 22, 2021

She reaches an arm behind the monitor, pulls out a long sleeve, and unzips it to unveil a shiny red sword with golden Japanese characters inscribed onto the blade.

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer

“Uh-oh,” the adorable furry creature says while peering through the unzipped opening as the new release date appears.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026

Hailey Bieber modeled it with an unzipped jacket.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026

During the phone call, he asked Farooq if he had any other weapons and Farooq unzipped his jacket to produce the imitiation gun, which Newby asked him to put on a bench.

From BBC ● Mar. 24, 2026

I slowly unzipped the tent door, poked my head out and saw it: a lone bison head-butting a picnic table, lifting one end into the air with alarming ease.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2025

She kneeled next to the lantern and unzipped her backpack, dumping out all June’s stuff.

From "Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World" by Ashley Herring Blake

The actress and crew are seen unzipping the black bags and pulling out dozens of bras, which are then tied together and thrown over parts of the structure.

From BBC ● Feb. 2, 2026

When they finished, it was immediately apparent how DNA copies itself, by unzipping down the middle, allowing each chain to find a new partner.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 7, 2025

"It would have been this slow, ongoing tear, almost like the crust unzipping itself," Anderson said.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 6, 2024

Coffey, the security expert, hides his tracker by unzipping the inner lining, and taping it under a flap of fabric.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 4, 2023

Tommy never liked it much when the unzipping stuff came up again, but by then the days of his being teased were past and no one connected the joke with him any more.

From "Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro