unpack
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The question of what’s real and not isn’t only Béatrice’s to unpack — you may wonder yourself whether Auen and Walker have fabricated their esoteric source materials and invented the strange saga of Ernetti.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026
Pete Wicks won two awards for Man Made, in which he tries to "unpack modern masculinity"
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
Plus, the Magnificent Seven has roared back, and we unpack the concessions that helped David Ellison end his stalemate with California.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026
Nowadays, it’s hard to unpack these narratives, when there are a thousand other issues vying for people’s attention.
From Salon ● Aug. 31, 2026
After dinner, I went into her room to watch her unpack.
From "The Lions of Little Rock" by Kristin Levine
A Hammer Museum retrospective unpacks the once L.A.-based artist’s remarkable legacy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026
As she unpacks her bags, she is clearly conflicted.
From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026
Dahlia Lithwick unpacks the high court’s ruling and how it will undoubtedly lead to mass confusion.
From Slate ● Aug. 27, 2026
RAND: As with the other experiments, it essentially just unpacks all the evidence that’s inconsistent with the claim.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 24, 2026
While he waits, he unpacks his bag and then packs it again, second-guessing his choices of what to bring and what to leave behind.
From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern
Residents unpacked the city’s financial statements on Reddit.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026
"We spent one night in there - we hadn't even unpacked," she says.
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026
Maybe that idea should have been unpacked a little bit more.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
The opinion insists that courts do more than identify a historical cousin to a modern law by examining whether the analogy survives scrutiny once its details are unpacked.
From Slate ● Jun. 26, 2026
He unpacked it: a soda, a turkey sandwich, a bag of SunChips.
From "The 57 Bus" by Dashka Slater
Instead, like any good reader—Swift is our self-proclaimed English teacher, after all—we might make more progress unpacking the text itself.
From Slate ● Sep. 23, 2026
But although much has changed for the Marvel Cinematic Universe in the years since the 2021 release of “Spider-Man: No Way Home,” one tradition remains: unpacking the meaning of an installment’s post-credits scene.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026
“How was that tennis rally won? How did that soccer attack build? It can be instantly overlaid with lavish graphics unpacking the action.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026
Yet for all the milestones, this debut album presents an artist less concerned with achievement and more focused on unpacking the experiences that shaped him pre-fame and turning them into a body of work.
From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2026
Still, I followed the girls back to their block after dinner and gave them the washi tape I’d brought along for some reason but hadn’t bothered unpacking.
From "Internment" by Samira Ahmed
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