"needs to be unpacked" is a correct and usable part of a sentence in written English.
It is often used to describe a concept or idea that requires further explanation or analysis. Example: "The complex tax reform proposal needs to be unpacked before we can fully understand its impact on the economy."
In an e-mailed response to a Times inquiry, Gindin wrote: The economist-speak of "net welfare gains" needs to be unpacked.
To see this, we believe that Zapata-Barrero's characterization of interculturalism as non-compulsory needs to be unpacked.
For a start, the idea that the black middle class engages in consumption for its own sake needs to be unpacked.
Engaging curriculum and instruction!" However, I've come to understand that the term "engagement" needs to be unpacked before addressing issues of management in the classroom.
Never mind the obvious exclamation that shooting and killing an unarmed man should have been a pretty damn difficult decision there's some logic behind his resignation that needs to be unpacked.
The announcement of a UK commission to look at ethical, legal and societal impact needs to be unpacked in terms of what the state of current A.I. is today and what is causing this early alarm bell to be taken seriously.
But the experience wasn't so passive, given the many conflicting layers that need to be unpacked.
One way of reducing costly handling is to put items into "shelf-ready packaging" so they do not need to be unpacked from a box and placed on a shelf individually.
The latter is especially important because the components of Dante's vast project (what the Dante scholar Giuseppe Mazzotta has called an "aesthetic theology of the totality of history") are often complex and learned, and need to be unpacked for today's reader.
Even the most reputable nursery, like Heirloom Roses in St . Paul Ore., cannot rule out a flood, a drought, a sudden freeze or a gardener called out of town when 13 roses need to be unpacked and planted in two-foot holes full of compost with perfect drainage.
