unlatch
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Tesla is facing a fresh investigation from U.S. automotive-safety regulators over concerns that it may be difficult to unlatch the doors of some Model 3 sedans in the case of an emergency.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 24, 2025
She wouldn’t unlatch the lock, saying he needed to face them.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 22, 2025
During the workweek, regulars slide in to occupy one of 10 seats at the bar at Lynn’s Motel on State Route 115 in Effort almost as soon as the doors unlatch at 4 p.m.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 26, 2023
"If you open this door and unlatch this thing and you slide this over, you'd look down in there and in between a bunch of nails you'd find my name," she says.
From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2020
“The cages open the same way as yours,” said another mouse, “but we can’t reach far enough to unlatch them.”
From "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH" by Robert C. O'Brien
Even without a stage, that is theater: a performance that unlatches the mind.
From New York Times ● Jan. 12, 2021
At that moment, I grabbed the girl around the torso and pulled her away from the cage and it unlatches from her claw.
From BBC ● Mar. 10, 2019
She unlatches her purse, clutches his slippers, slides them into the dark can, hides them between bags of trash.
From Salon ● Feb. 23, 2013
Johanna unlatches my locket, studying the pictures of Gale, Prim, and my mother.
From "Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins
Sighing, she stands up and stretches, then unlatches the door.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
Tesla has issued a software update for more than 1.8 million vehicles in the US to fix a faulty notification system for unlatched bonnets, also known as hoods in the US.
From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2024
That can cause it to malfunction and stay unlatched even when the hood is closed.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 28, 2022
Taylor Harris rolled into her parking spot at the bottom of a hill and unlatched her son from his car seat.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 14, 2022
And in 1915, a monkey dressed nattily in men’s clothes — for which I could find no explanation, which was very shoddy journalism indeed — found an unlatched cage door and went walkabout.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2021
As she unlatched the chain, Papa Will’s huge six-foot-four-inch-tall frame lurched forward into the room.
From "March Forward, Girl" by Melba Pattillo Beals
An "extremely intelligent" bear that injured four people in northern Japan remains at large as of Friday, after apparently unlatching a window while evading capture and turning on a water tap, officials said.
From Barron's ● Jun. 5, 2026
Activists “liberated” captive mink as they have for years, sneaking onto mink farms in Utah and Idaho and unlatching the cages of 2,000 mink, who fled into the moonlight.
From New York Times ● Jan. 19, 2022
The crew undocked from the station on schedule, first retracting cables that supplied power from the space station, then unlatching 12 hooks that had held the two together for more than two months.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 1, 2020
Then he heard a sound no paramedic ever wants to hear: the click of a patient’s shoulder harness unlatching.
From New York Times ● Jul. 8, 2015
“Oh, I can’t afford any of this,” she says, unlatching the necklace and laying it down all nice.
From "Clean Getaway" by Nic Stone
