unfix
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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
The order was marching by149 fours to fix or unfix bayonets.
From The heart of happy hollow A collection of stories by Paul Laurence Dunbar
"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
Fix and unfix bayonet are executed, with promptness and regularity but not in cadence.
From Manual for Noncommissioned Officers and Privates of Infantry of the Army of the United States, 1917 To be used by Engineer companies (dismounted) and Coast Artillery companies for Infantry instruction and training by United States War Department
She said nothing until he had got up and tried to unfix the ladder without success.
From The Strand Magazine, Volume XXVII, Issue 160, April, 1904 by Various
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
About 154,000 vehicles—roughly 37%—affected by the Kia recall remain unfixed, according to the latest records that automakers must file with NHTSA.
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
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
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
Everything is fixed, and there is no unfixing.
From Mary Cary "Frequently Martha" by Kate Langley Bosher
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
