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unlatched
verb
Past of unlatch
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The area was enclosed by a slanted canopy of partitioned glass, and I unlatched a panel and swung it open.
Here's what I did: I asked the main dope to let me use his bathroom (we were in front of his apartment) and while I pretended to piss I unlatched the window.
Cahill flipped through a copy of Science News and, finally, an hour or so later, walked the basset hound to the road, picking him up for the dangerous crossing, then down four houses, where he saw that Breezy's car was gone and the back gate unlatched.
"The little sneak unlatched your porch door and wandered over while you were off at the pancake house.
Father Meade unlatched the French doors and went ahead of his visitor.
As Walker unlatched the back gate and walked through the high-walled garden, where brick paths define islands of roses, she was startled by a sound that presaged the announcement of a sea change in the widow's life: "Teresa whistling in the kitchen".
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Light-water reactors are refueled by removing the reactor head after lowering and unlatching the safety rods in the case of a PWR.
Stephen cruelly criticizes her habit of italicizing words ( a takeoff on the Cosmopolitan practice) Stephen then unlatches the trunk, out of which emerges another woman.
But the woman who remembers won't be Charlie; after Rolph dies, she'll revert to her real name — Charlene — unlatching herself forever from the girl who danced with her brother in Africa.
There is no visible means of access on the new McLaren MP4-12C; to unlatch the door, one sweeps a hand under a ridge that extends forward from the rear air scoops.
The agency is investigating the 2009-11 Graco My Ride 65 and some 2009-11 Nautilus child restraints after receiving 25 complaints from owners who said they had trouble unlatching the harness buckle, according to a report (PDF) filed on the agency's Web site.
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