unstop
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Will we unstop our ears and learn from the mistakes of the past?
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 9, 2022
Mitchell's curiosity, his readiness to be interested, seems to unstop his subjects: the genie of their speech pours out.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 22, 2012
This week the FCC is going to unstop the bottleneck that has made calling internationally the only exorbitantly priced relic in the telephone system.
From Time Magazine Archive
"One flute will serve only to unstop your ears and dissolve the caul from off your eyes, so that you may hear and see the truths that will be laid before you."
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
She tried by increased tenderness and love to unstop his silent lips and to make him tell what was lying so heavily on his heart.
From Legends of the Rhine by Wilhelm Ruland
The infernal machine will continue largely unstopped because there is a huge market for its poison.
From Salon ● Apr. 26, 2023
Gaterud, on her farm deep in the mountains of Humboldt County, said she feels betrayed by California and angry that she suffers while those flouting the law go unstopped.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 3, 2022
If the abnormal cells continue to divide unstopped, they can damage the tissues around them, spread to other parts of the body, and eventually result in death.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
One Hobbs, a reprobate solicitor, received the unstopped cheque and deposited it in the name of Robinson in a London Branch of the Midland Bank.
From Time Magazine Archive
Some of our comrades have moved into the new life beyond, where the eyes of the blind are opened and the ears of the deaf are unstopped.
From The Gospel of the Hereafter by J. Paterson (John Paterson) Smyth
People raced to throw life jackets out, but the unstopping wind seemed to toss the jackets back.
From New York Times ● Jul. 20, 2018
O’Brien tumbles into her characters’ voices; the prose has a life-filled, unstopping locomotion: “her little Mini, her chariot of freedom.”
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 25, 2016
Hundreds of protesters, who had promised to be a visible presence here and filled several sections of the arena, let out an elated, unstopping cheer.
From New York Times ● Mar. 11, 2016
He realises that he is disconcerted above all by their unstopping busyness.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 1, 2013
They were heave-ho-ing, stopping and unstopping, pawling, catting, and fishing for three hours; and the sails hung from the yards all the afternoon, and were not furled until sundown.
From Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana
