unloose
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I unloose the cow and leave her and her newborn to each other.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 22, 2018
And in a way this has stifled exactly the sort of catharsis the play is supposed to unloose.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 3, 2014
In the equivalent of flight attendants becoming pilots, caddies became players seven days a week, not merely on Monday mornings, when the clubs where they worked might unloose them onto largely vacant courses.
From New York Times ● Apr. 10, 2010
Every person in the Senate knows Jesse could unloose that barrage of letters.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The continents strain to unloose themselves, to drift reckless and heavy in the seas.
From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García
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The right to have the stays of gender unloosed, the right to breathe.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 8, 2018
As the story opens, the good people of Aldwinter are wondering whether an earthquake has unloosed their old monster from the estuary depths.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 5, 2017
We see her dark hair unloosed, a cascade of black.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 11, 2016
Try as the author might to feel affinity for the unloosed and the wandering, it doesn't always happen.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2015
I quick unloosed his arm so’s the conjurization wouldn’t have the chance to jump off of him and onto me.
From "Elijah of Buxton" by Christopher Paul Curtis
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And, in the San Francisco Bay Area, burrowing rodents may be digging into entombed trash at a landfill-turned-park, unloosing explosive levels of methane.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 19, 2025
But, unfortunately, if the contagion spreads to all the elements of our planet, the consequences of unloosing such a cataclysm can only be viewed with apprehension.
From Salon ● Aug. 12, 2023
The effect has been an unloosing of hysteria upon the land.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 3, 2018
Our disruption of the natural world, “Spillover” declares, is largely to blame for unloosing terrible microbes.
From New York Times ● Oct. 2, 2012
Now he found that he could not remember the first phrases without unloosing and looking at a small roll of paper which he held furtively in his hand.
From Phineas Finn The Irish Member by Anthony Trollope