unfix
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It’s kind of like when you are staring at something and you unfix your eyes, and your body relaxes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
She was home from boarding school for the summer, and day after day the sun rose into a cloudless sky, from which Jane couldn’t unfix the word “cerulean,” which she’d learned in the art room.
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 2, 2012
"And wherefore say, good brother, that I would unfix thy principles of belief?" answered Clement.
From The Fair Maid of Perth Or, St. Valentine's Day by Sir Walter Scott
To admit the genuineness of the "Acts" is to throw into confusion the little history that we certainly know, and to unfix the continuity of events.
From The Cradle of the Christ A Study in Primitive Christianity by Octavius Brooks Frothingham
His foes are so enrooted with his friends, That, plucking to unfix an enemy, He doth unfasten so and shake a friend.
From Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. With An Historical Sketch Of The Origin And Growth Of The Drama In England by Henry Norman Hudson
If the federal government were the only entity who could file these claims, then every small hotel chain with a broken ramp might go unfixed.
From Slate ● May 19, 2026
The BBC has been shown a significant - and unfixed - cyber-security risk in a popular AI coding platform.
From BBC ● Feb. 12, 2026
Still, over 700,000 of the Toyotas—roughly 24% of those recalled—remain unfixed, according to numbers from Toyota last month.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 8, 2025
If left unfixed, it could have severely affected Euclid’s science mission and led to gaps in its map of the Universe.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 10, 2023
“And I ain’t a master-mind,” Joe resumed, when he had unfixed his look, and got back to his whisker.
From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
Most brokerage houses, while technically unfixing their rates, still charge about the same fees as before on small trades on a take-it-or-leave-it basis.
From Time Magazine Archive
Something has been fixed at last, and I most certainly shall not consent to any further unfixing.
From Ayala's Angel by Anthony Trollope
Everything is fixed, and there is no unfixing.
From Mary Cary "Frequently Martha" by Kate Langley Bosher
A few moments were suffered to elapse: and then, unfixing the haulser from the stem, and bringing it aft to the stern, we commenced hauling.
From My Schools and Schoolmasters or The Story of my Education. by Hugh Miller
By this time some fifty officers and blue-jackets were about the roof and ledge, some discussing, others unfixing lanterns and festoons, with shouted directions.
From The Lord of the Sea by M. P. (Matthew Phipps) Shiel
I mean by it not an intellectuall spirit, but a fine, unfixt, attenuate, subtill, ethereall substance, the immediate vehicle of plasticall or sensitive life.
From Democritus Platonissans by Henry More
