as in to unfasten
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Recent Examples of unfix
This week, however, Mr. Cohen is poised to unfix Mr. Trump’s life.
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William K. Rashbaum, New York Times, 12 May 2024
William K. Rashbaum, New York Times, 12 May 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unfix
Verb
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On Black Friday last year, with the Chiefs and Raiders reserved for a national TV audience, quarterback Patrick Mahomes slammed a football between his hands and angrily unfastened his chin strap before yelling toward the sideline.—
Sam McDowell,
Kansas City Star,
18 Apr. 2025
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Grant, meanwhile, wore a simple black suit and a white button-up shirt with the first few buttons unfastened in a boyish manner.—
Raven Brunner,
People.com,
29 Jan. 2025
Verb
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Idaho’s 1-to-6 ratio for infants remains in place, but the ratios were loosened for all older children.—
Rachel Cohen,
Vox,
17 Apr. 2025
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Compliance Gets Hyperlocal There is a tendency when reading headlines about sweeping changes to major regulatory initiatives to look only at the top-line effects — federal regulation is loosening — and the assumption that this will make compliance less burdensome.—
Mary Foley,
Forbes.com,
17 Apr. 2025
Verb
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But in 2010, Bernanke proposed something much more far-reaching: an initiative to disburse interest-free loans to major banks to unloose new tranches of cash throughout the economy.—
Chris Lehmann,
The New Republic,
19 Jan. 2022
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In a long, cozy sequence in the season’s first episode, Sam cooks breakfast for her sleeping household, sizzling sausage and frying eggs in a private ritual that’s best appreciated before her daughters rise and unloose chaos.—
Alexandra Schwartz,
The New Yorker,
13 Apr. 2020
Verb
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Unsurprisingly, markets and investors are loosing their patience with BP.—
Gaurav Sharma,
Forbes.com,
20 Apr. 2025
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In the fall of 1982, Love Child receives its title and is loosed into theaters, only to vanish a few weeks later.—
Matthew Specktor,
HollywoodReporter,
3 Sep. 2019
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“Unfix.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unfix. Accessed 29 Apr. 2025.
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