as in to open
to rid the surface of (as an area) from things in the way
unblock the road so that the convoy can proceed
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Recent Examples of unblock
Griffin drew up a play in which the return team would leave one of the inside coverage team players unblocked, have the returner draw him in one direction and then execute the switch.
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Ted Nguyen, The Athletic, 18 July 2024
Meanwhile, there are a few notable media outlets that have unblocked OpenAI’s web crawler despite not making any sort of partnership announcement, as data journalist Ben Welsh pointed out to WIRED.
—Kate Knibbs, WIRED, 7 Oct. 2024
That’s about 20-to-the-power-of-20 times current global GDP — the result of a daily fine that was doubled each week since late 2021, when a court first ordered Google to unblock one of the channels, Tsargrad TV.
—Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 31 Oct. 2024
WordPress then temporarily unblocked WP Engine and gave it until Oct. 1 to agree to terms of a licensing agreement, which Mullenweg made public.
—Ari Levy, CNBC, 5 Oct. 2024
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Ted Nguyen, The Athletic, 18 July 2024
Meanwhile, there are a few notable media outlets that have unblocked OpenAI’s web crawler despite not making any sort of partnership announcement, as data journalist Ben Welsh pointed out to WIRED.
—Kate Knibbs, WIRED, 7 Oct. 2024
That’s about 20-to-the-power-of-20 times current global GDP — the result of a daily fine that was doubled each week since late 2021, when a court first ordered Google to unblock one of the channels, Tsargrad TV.
—Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 31 Oct. 2024
WordPress then temporarily unblocked WP Engine and gave it until Oct. 1 to agree to terms of a licensing agreement, which Mullenweg made public.
—Ari Levy, CNBC, 5 Oct. 2024
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“Unblock.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unblock. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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