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
The continents strain to unloose themselves, to drift reckless and heavy in the seas.
From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García
“A book I entered hesitantly, cautiously, I exited anew — something in me unloosed, running,” our reviewer, Danez Smith, writes.
From New York Times ● Jan. 21, 2021
The right to have the stays of gender unloosed, the right to breathe.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 8, 2018
He stuck out his tongue and unloosed a menacing yowl.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 17, 2016
We see her dark hair unloosed, a cascade of black.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 11, 2016
The economic, political, and social forces that unloosed themselves on the streets of Petrograd and launched the Russian Revolution were vastly more complex than Alexei’s hemophilia or Rasputin’s machinations.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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
“Imp’dent tings!” said Teddy, unloosing the small terrier; “do and lick ’em, Puck!”
From Teddy The Story of a Little Pickle by John C. (John Conroy) Hutcheson
