unroll
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"As you unroll it, you can map the letters a lot more clearly."
From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026
Now slice the cylinder open and unroll it to get a flat rectangular sheet.
From Slate ● Jan. 21, 2026
"We have to work out which layer is different from the next layer so we can unroll that digitally," said Dr Mancuso.
From BBC ● Feb. 5, 2025
Those scores will pose the biggest concern for Marvel as it continues to unroll phase five of the MCU, following mixed reviews for the post-“Avengers: Eternals” phase four of the comic-book franchise.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 19, 2023
Tali had brought their map case inside, and now he opened it, pushing aside empty bowls to unroll a map of the Wood onto the table.
From "Huntress" by Malinda Lo
Now there's a new threat – drones equipped with a real fibre optic cable which unrolls as they fly.
From BBC ● May 14, 2025
The action unrolls mostly in and around New York’s Plaza Hotel; in Washington, D.C., where they performed their first American concert; and on trains traveling back and forth.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 25, 2024
Around him, Hudlin unrolls a life that, Poitier believed, fulfilled the predictions of the soothsayer his mother consulted when he was not expected to survive infancy.
From New York Times ● Sep. 22, 2022
Wait for it, and then delight in the commentary that unrolls.
From Salon ● Apr. 4, 2020
From his pocket, he takes a coil of paper and unrolls it.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
County’s post-fire resiliency unrolled a surprise sign demanding an investigation from California Atty.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 13, 2026
That was a more upbeat forecast than the projections published as higher U.S. tariffs were being unrolled in April.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2025
We sat in the heat of the tin-roofed sitting room as the past unrolled on my laptop screen.
From BBC ● May 25, 2024
"Around 14 days after germination, we unrolled the paper so that we could observe the early development of the roots without the interference of any soil adhered to them," says Hochholdinger.
From Science Daily ● May 22, 2024
He had slept in the living room, he told me, on a mattress that Obiora unrolled from behind the bedroom door and covered with a wrapper.
From "Purple Hibiscus" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
In 2015, he demonstrated the successful digital unrolling of a charred scroll recovered from a synagogue that burned around 600 C.E.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026
"Rolling, unrolling, or hanging it in a new way can cause tearing, stitch loss and distortion of the fabric."
From Barron's ● Jan. 15, 2026
"Rolling, unrolling or handling it in a new way can cause damage."
From BBC ● Jan. 14, 2026
In the 2018 book “Hinterland,” Phil A. Neel described the sound of America’s exurban sprawl as “guns cocking over trap snares unrolling to infinity.”
From Salon ● May 16, 2025
I found I often stopped for coffee, not because I wanted it but for a rest and a change from the unrolling highway.
From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck
