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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of unfold.

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Examples

  • The nine justices will tackle an ambitious agenda of issues ranging from child pornography to voter I.D. Gary Nurenberg has a preview of what's likely to be happening behind those big white columns as the term unfolds or at least as much as we can learn, right.

    CNN Transcript Sep 30, 2007 2007

  • But however the three-way battle for the title unfolds - Vettel is just two points behind Button's Brawn GP team-mate Rubens Barrichello in second - the German believes Red Bull can still celebrate an excellent 2009 campaign.

    Sportal.com.au - Latest News Headlines 2009

  • This is the case primarily because the word, as thought by Heidegger, takes thinking more deeply into the ongoing question of Heidegger's thinking -- being, be-ing, ἀλήθεια, λόγος, anwesendes Anwesen, emergent emerging, emergence -- such that the German word unfolds more deeply than and beyond anything that it 'usually' means in German.

    enowning enowning 2008

  • This is the case primarily because the word, as thought by Heidegger, takes thinking more deeply into the ongoing question of Heidegger's thinking -- being, be-ing, ἀλήθεια, λόγος, anwesendes Anwesen, emergent emerging, emergence -- such that the German word unfolds more deeply than and beyond anything that it 'usually' means in German.

    Archive 2008-05-01 enowning 2008

  • One thing leads to another, and what unfolds is the discovery of something so fundamentally wrong that it can't be ignored.

    Jennifer Brunner: Notarize This: The Brewing Foreclosure Storm Jennifer Brunner 2010

  • One thing leads to another, and what unfolds is the discovery of something so fundamentally wrong that it can't be ignored.

    Jennifer Brunner: Notarize This: The Brewing Foreclosure Storm Jennifer Brunner 2010

  • The love story that unfolds is poignant and powerful.

    Advance reader reviews of The Lotus Eaters by Tatjana Soli. 2010

  • The tale that unfolds is an unforgettable story of love on many levels - first love, love between parents and children - that demonstrates, as only a Nicholas Sparks novel can, the many ways that love can break our hearts ... and heal them.

    The Last Song by Nicholas Sparks: Book summary 2010

  • It would be difficult for any one to be a worse leader than Bush, but as Obama's term unfolds, it is clear he is achieving very little, and some of the issues that many thought Obama could resolve, are getting worse.

    Republicans play to win on healthcare repeal | Sahil Kapur 2011

  • One thing leads to another, and what unfolds is the discovery of something so fundamentally wrong that it can't be ignored.

    Jennifer Brunner: Notarize This: The Brewing Foreclosure Storm Jennifer Brunner 2010

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