as in to unload
to empty or rid of cargo
unpacked the car the minute they got back from vacation
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There’s a lot to unpack about the short- and longer-term trends at play, but this wobble in the car market masks a good news story in the electrification of larger fleets of small vans.
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Forrester, Forbes, 2 Dec. 2024
Joy Randolph unpacks her character's emotional breakdown 13 of 25
Home Alone (1990)
Forget Die Hard — Home Alone is the ultimate Christmas action movie.
—Janey Tracey, EW.com, 29 Nov. 2024
Adjusting Dogs to New Homes Moving is stressful enough, with packing, coordinating the movers and unpacking.
—Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 27 Nov. 2024
Women unpacked propane tanks and prepared pounds and pounds of carnitas.
—Kayla Aletha Welch, Longreads, 19 Nov. 2024
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Forrester, Forbes, 2 Dec. 2024
Joy Randolph unpacks her character's emotional breakdown 13 of 25
Home Alone (1990)
Forget Die Hard — Home Alone is the ultimate Christmas action movie.
—Janey Tracey, EW.com, 29 Nov. 2024
Adjusting Dogs to New Homes Moving is stressful enough, with packing, coordinating the movers and unpacking.
—Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 27 Nov. 2024
Women unpacked propane tanks and prepared pounds and pounds of carnitas.
—Kayla Aletha Welch, Longreads, 19 Nov. 2024
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“Unpack.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unpack. Accessed 30 Dec. 2024.
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