unhinge

It inherently asks us to consume these people and needs us to in order to make money, but sometimes consumers want to unhinge their jaws and eat these stars whole, a frightening and unsettling behavior.

From Slate ● Aug. 5, 2026

The troubles at Credit Suisse threatened to unhinge Switzerland’s position as a leading financial market, and the takeover left the country with only one internationally important bank: UBS.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 24, 2024

Snakes can’t really unhinge their jaws, but for some, that doesn’t get in the way of swallowing absurdly large prey.

From New York Times ● Aug. 31, 2023

He walked up to me, opened his mouth so wide it seemed to unhinge like a snake’s, blasted out a truly heroic sneeze and covered me with a fine mist.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 3, 2020

Like some members of the reptile family, dwarf males can unhinge their jaws, allowing them to ingest several pounds of earth a second.

From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer

They have shown they can link up on the pitch and all play well, but there always seems to be something around the corner that unhinges them.

From BBC ● Feb. 2, 2024

“Kwon is the one that unhinges us a little bit,” defensive coordinator Jeff Ulbrich said.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 16, 2022

While all viruses find ways to evade the body's defenses, a growing field of research suggests that the coronavirus unhinges the immune system more profoundly than previously realized.

From Salon ● Mar. 8, 2021

It’s just before London, like a snake, unhinges its huge mechanical jaws and gulps down a small Bavarian mining town — people, bricks and all: “Prepare to ingest.”

From Washington Post ● Dec. 12, 2018

Zero is so powerful because it unhinges the laws of physics.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife

It’s being remade with Margaret Qualley and the main reason for the movie’s notoriety remains Isabelle Adjani’s unhinged, incantatory performance, a collection of freak-outs that’s still unmatched.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2026

They have what few candidates get: the opportunity to be unhinged and distracting in the opposite direction of someone like RFK Jr.

From Slate ● Jun. 18, 2026

There was something unconsciously fitting about it all: the spectacle of one old media company offering a platform to an icon of another to say something unhinged, self-obsessed and divorced from reality.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 8, 2026

Owens, for her part, has spent years building an audience through increasingly unhinged provocations.

From Salon ● May 23, 2026

Slightly unhinged by the perilous events, Matthias giggled to his friend, “It’s all in the average day’s work of a warrior. No use of a warrior worrying, ha ha ha.”

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques

While inconsistency has always been an irritating feature of his game, at his best Traore is capable of unhinging defences with his pace alone.

From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2022

Gardner-Johnson smiled and responded playfully to recent questions about his penchant for unhinging receivers.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 12, 2021

I was just so freaked out that I wouldn’t be able to breathe, and when I put it in my mouth, I felt like a snake unhinging my jaw just to put it in.

From Slate ● Apr. 6, 2021

The amount of fear he’s feeling now has got to be unhinging him.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 25, 2020

At the end of these recurrent dreams, they watched the grim-lipped officer and the chaplain move toward the unhinging annunciation at the front door.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy