unplug

“When I see people going through it in the beginning, like they’ve just been unplugged in ‘The Matrix,’ you know they can’t avoid this pain.

This was Rivers unplugged, foul-mouthed in a way that made me feel like a squeamish altar boy.

Over my career, both the travel writing industry and publication budgets in general have deflated like an unplugged bouncy house.

There was so much noise rattling around in Betts’ head and he was feeling so much negative energy from Dodgers fans and the media that he decided to unplug from the outside world.

I unplugged appliances, cursed SoCalGas, turned off the faucet to save water, started a garden, grew trees from seeds and sprouts, and cleaned up garbage wherever I could.