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
The cages were padlocked, a measure to keep the birds from figuring out how to unlatch their enclosures and escape.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 10, 2023
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
Finally, she closes the door to unlatch the chain, and when she opens it again, I step through before she can change her mind.
From "Girl in the Blue Coat" by Monica Hesse
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
She reaches to the edge of the spice shelf and unlatches a small hook I hadn’t noticed.
From "Girl in the Blue Coat" by Monica Hesse
Etienne unlatches the little door beside the wardrobe.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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
At the same time, it asked for a 17-month extension to work on details that will prevent maintenance mechanics leaving the engine access doors unlatched.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 28, 2023
Once they had brought down two more barricades, a few protesters hopped the first of two gates to the mansion and unlatched it.
From New York Times ● Aug. 12, 2022
He barked, panted and drooled until she unlatched the door just a few minutes later.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 28, 2021
The kitchen cat, curled in his basket by the back door, stretched lazily as she unlatched the door and slipped outside.
From "Huntress" by Malinda Lo
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
I gulp down a few breaths before unlatching the windows.
From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black
