unplug
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“That’s the point, you know what we should do? Pull the plug, literally unplug the computer.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
Our own A.I. policy preference is that the government should unplug it, then repurpose gigantic data centers into the biggest Chili’s franchises you’ve ever seen.
From Slate ● Sep. 12, 2026
“The Wrong Girls” is the right comedy if you want to unplug your brain and laugh.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
"I can't just sort of go home and like unplug and be like a different person," she tells Saunders.
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026
Made him unplug from the laughs and likes.
From "Look Both Ways" by Jason Reynolds
Before S.G.V. takes a shower, Vargas unplugs her IV tubes, flushes them with saline and tapes a plastic sheet over her chest to keep water from getting in and infecting the area.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 27, 2025
She unplugs microwaves and uses the hanger trick on curtains.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 8, 2022
But are there consequences if everyone unplugs from the system?
From Slate ● Mar. 27, 2022
My father is so cheap when we go to bed he unplugs the clocks.
From Salon ● Nov. 23, 2015
We all sit there blinking as she unplugs and sits down.
From "Merci Suárez Changes Gears" by Meg Medina
She claimed she was off work and home alone—that she had unplugged her phone and gone to bed.
From Slate ● Apr. 6, 2026
A liquefaction train, which cools the gas, is like a giant refrigerator, but unlike an unplugged fridge at home, restoring it could take weeks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 8, 2026
The lawsuit aims to force the operators to address dangers posed by the unplugged wells.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 11, 2025
In 2020, economist Paul Milgrom unplugged the phone when the Nobel committee called - in the middle of the night - to tell him he had won the Nobel for economics.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2025
If we exceeded our five minutes, particularly if someone else was waiting to use the phone, Daddy simply unplugged it.
From "While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement" by Carolyn Maull McKinstry
It’s a hard day for a lot of people, so unplugging and watching the sunset is always an option.
From Slate ● Sep. 11, 2026
But beyond the material hardships, many describe a similar feeling: the impossibility of unplugging from their problems.
From Barron's ● Aug. 4, 2026
What we need is a culture capable of making that unplugging last.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 16, 2026
Abandoning a cult is relatively easy compared to unplugging from a hive; although deprogramming can be an arduous process, a hive mind hollows out everything but our skins.
From Salon ● Dec. 29, 2025
At first I suspected the operator, at her switchboard, might be listening, but she just went on plugging and unplugging her little tubes without batting an eye.
From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath
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