as in to unload
to empty or rid of cargo
unpacked the car the minute they got back from vacation
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Leah Dolan, CNN, 28 Jan. 2025
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Leah Dolan, CNN, 28 Jan. 2025
Entertainment Weekly unpacks that infamous cut to black in the show's final moments.
—Will Harris, EW.com, 23 Jan. 2025
President Donald Trump has officially been sworn in for a second term, and late-night hosts are here to unpack a historic Inauguration Day.
—Brendan Morrow, USA TODAY, 21 Jan. 2025
There Is a Business and Technological Tension Between Traditional-Computing AI and Quantum AI
There is much to unpack here.
—Luis E. Romero, Forbes, 18 Jan. 2025
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“Unpack.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unpack. Accessed 22 Feb. 2025.
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