(v. t.) To separate and remove, as things packed; to open and remove the contents of; as, to unpack a trunk.
(v. t.) To relieve of a pack or burden.
Example Sentences:
(1) You can date the phrase back further, to 1998, when Peggy McIntosh used the word "privilege" in her essay White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack .
(2) Today, they pitch up outside Buxton Opera House, unpack an 8ft effigy of Big Ben and an even bigger gibbet, and – oh, yes – hang parliament.
(3) Or the basis of an Alice Munro short story concerned (as in all her stories) with Unpacking Fraught Outcomes.
(4) His statements take some unpacking, and for fans of the Tomb Raider series they're not encouraging.
(5) liquefaciens proceeded similarly both in packed and unpacked forcemeat.
(6) There are a lot of pregnancy issues to think about which have not been unpacked yet.
(7) Some of the stories were impossible to unpack, others, like The Gift, were classically constructed short stories.
(8) And this is where we have to start to unpack our doubts.” She drew on her own experience and said her former husband Greg, who murdered their son Luke in 2014, had a marijuana dependency and suffered from paranoia.
(9) Unpacked sites had filled completely with loosely woven trabecular bone.
(10) The DVD extras show a deleted scene of Doc unpacking a suitcase of essentials he would have taken with him to the future: spare underwear, various types of cash, a hairdryer, and a copy of Playboy.
(11) She has just moved house when I meet her and an adjacent room is full of unpacked boxes.
(12) When stored for 24 hours at room temperature, unpacked arepas have a surface moisture loss of 47%, and even if reheated, hardening becomes irreversible in 84.6% of them.
(13) And then, a week later, you talk to her again, and you try to understand that it often takes several goes for a woman to escape, several bags packed and unpacked, several train tickets bought.
(14) This week I helped him with his unpacking at the house.
(15) We have to work with development professionals to unpack their linguistic horrors of value chains, gender mainstreaming and capacity building to find out what that actually means and then communicate it effectively.
(16) She put outfits together herself and, much to my mother's amazement, tidies up after herself and neatly packs and unpacks her belongings when she comes home from college.
(17) Unpack Theresa May’s anti-immigration statement and it dissolves into qualifiable anxieties about how schools and housing and hospitals will accommodate rapid population growth.
(18) To unpack the story of this one brand of backpack is to travel to the heart of early 21st-century consumerism.
(19) Those who work in this field must make conscious choices about how to unpack their boxes.
(20) During Ramadan, local Muslims gather in groups unpacking picnics, waiting for the sun to set over this bustling city.
Unpick
Definition:
(v. t.) To pick out; to undo by picking.
Example Sentences:
(1) However in a repeat of the current standoff over the federal budget, the conservative wing of the Republican party is threatening to exploit its leverage over raising the debt ceiling to unpick Obama's healthcare reforms.
(2) The task of unpicking exactly what type of gap in intelligence that the surveillance-savvy and well-organised bombers were able to slip through will take time, but it holds the key to preventing further Islamic State attacks.
(3) Somewhere like Ketchum – mind you, that can get pretty bumpin’ in winter.” We unpicked this slowly.
(4) This is not a deal that Walmart can suddenly unpick: it was announced in June and completed recently, approved by Massmart's international investors.
(5) The new deal thrashed out in a hurry in the small hours by the three main political parties – now, at last, having a common conversation – insisted on "underpinning" the pantomime horse of charter with a requirement that it could only be unpicked or amended by a two-thirds vote of parliament.
(6) When Labour was returned to power in 1997, many of us were optimistic that its virtual three-term majority afforded it a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to bring forth a programme of socially progressive legislation that, if planned carefully, would prove difficult for future right-wing Tory administrations to unpick.
(7) The structure of the new ministry took some unpicking - but I assume at this stage that an administrative arrangements order will make sense of which portfolio bits have gone where.
(8) Even the House of Lords couldn’t stomach Osborne’s tax credit cuts | Polly Toynbee Read more In the immediate aftermath of the budget Osborne seemed to have pulled off his conjuring trick, but as often with budgets the IFS and others started to unpick the impact of his work.
(9) "The contracts are not due to be signed until May [and] anyone looking to sign one should understand that we'll do all we can to legally unpick them if David Cameron enters No 10.
(10) There are many flaws in the government case which a determined opposition will unpick between now and the next general election in 2020.
(11) Weissmann formerly led the FBI’s fraud unit and the taskforce that unpicked the complex financial dealings of Enron, after the giant energy corporation collapsed in December 2001.
(12) As long [ago] as it is, we will get to the bottom of it.” Pressed on whether he believes there was a Westminster-based paedophile ring, as has been alleged, Hogan-Howe said: “I don’t think we know yet.” Investigations into historical allegations contain “so much that’s difficult to unpick”, he added, with “some twists and turns” that are vital to the outcome of the case.
(13) Is there the staff and experience available to start unpicking it?” Dougal said cuts at Westminster were already affecting the Scottish fishing community’s relationship both with Defra and the EU.
(14) Such a move would, he said, be "part privatisation by stealth" and be impossible to unpick, resulting in a loss of value for taxpayers that ultimately own the organisation.
(15) At the frontline, the picture is murkier but richer: there's plenty of data (at least in acute settings) but this is rarely uncontested and often hard to unpick.
(16) Mackay warns against trying to unpick the complexities of the language.
(17) But the work penalty shows it may at least be possible to begin unpicking their electoral coalition.
(18) But it did not take long for the financial markets to unpick the Brussels agreement.
(19) Most commentators agree that if the UK votes to leave the EU, it will trigger a huge wave of parliamentary legislation, to unpick our UK laws from those of the EU.
(20) But the purpose of such sites is notoriously difficult to unpick.