unbrace
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“But when you start opening things up, start demo-ing a little slab, you might unbrace a column, and that column has temporary shoring, or perhaps it’s only temporary braced and that’s less stable.”
From Slate ● Mar. 24, 2020
Together all set their sheets, and all at once slacken their canvas to left and again to right; together they brace and unbrace the yard-arms aloft; prosperous gales waft the fleet along.
From The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil
His real expression was, 'that he would not unbrace a single nerve for any treaty France could offer; such was their entire want of faith, morality, &c.'
From Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 3 by Thomas Jefferson Randolph
Edwin, sunk in weariness, said little in opposition; and having suffered Monteith to take away his sword and to unbrace his plated vest, dropped at once on the straw in a profound sleep.
From The Scottish Chiefs by Jane Porter
What rules has he proposed totally to unbrace the slackened nerve; to shade the heavy eye of inattention; to give the smooth feature and the uncontracted muscle; or procure insensibility to the whole animal composition?
From The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 04 The Adventurer; The Idler by Samuel Johnson
Retrofitting soft-story homes costs much more than fixing an unbraced “cripple wall”: $14,000 to $28,000.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 3, 2023
One prior case with possible legal parallels involves the 2013 collapse in Philadelphia of an unbraced wall of a building that was being demolished.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 5, 2021
Benscop used an excavator on the site that morning despite rules that an unbraced wall must be taken down by hand.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 25, 2017
But wire-bracing, gears, cams, valves, engine cowling, various parts of unbraced sheet metal in airplane construction will, by their vibration, for some time keep planes from becoming as silent as mod ern automobiles.
From Time Magazine Archive
Standing by itself, unbraced, Ferris’s wheel looked dangerously fragile.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
Judge Custis remarked, in spite of his fagged face, for good resolution and yesterday's unbracing had left him somewhat limp and haggard still.
From The Entailed Hat Or, Patty Cannon's Times by George Alfred Townsend
Though swift in her racing, Like the kinsfolk before her, No heart-burst, unbracing Her strength, rushes o'er her.
From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century by Charles Rogers
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