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  • verb Present participle of unwrap.
  • noun The act or process by which something is unwrapped.

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Examples

  • If you throw in unwrapping/wrapping batting gloves, trips to the mound, spitting and scratching ... you might be way north of 18 minutes.

    Len Berman: Top 5 Sports Stories Len Berman 2010

  • If you throw in unwrapping/wrapping batting gloves, trips to the mound, spitting and scratching ... you might be way north of 18 minutes.

    Len Berman: Top 5 Sports Stories Len Berman 2010

  • If you throw in unwrapping/wrapping batting gloves, trips to the mound, spitting and scratching ... you might be way north of 18 minutes.

    Len Berman: Top 5 Sports Stories Len Berman 2010

  • Louise was ecstatic, waking up early and gleefully announcing that Santa had arrived, trying to tally the presents under the tree ( "about a million"), and urgently pestering us until we arose groggily from our bed to begin unwrapping them.

    Archive 2005-12-01 Slimbolala 2005

  • Louise was ecstatic, waking up early and gleefully announcing that Santa had arrived, trying to tally the presents under the tree ( "about a million"), and urgently pestering us until we arose groggily from our bed to begin unwrapping them.

    "Dear Santa" Slimbolala 2005

  • He wasted no time in unwrapping the chunk and biting it in half, leaving large teeth marks in his wake.

    stonetable.org » Jambalaya 2003

  • Again, we would return to the notion of unwrapping a Doctor, but it wouldn't really be the Doctor, it would turn out to be something else, and as we tore off the paper over the course of the hour we would get to the core of the mystery and it would finally present the solution to the Cybermen's invasion and shock and surprise and thrill us.

    Behind the Sofa - The Collaborative Doctor Who Blog 2009

  • Dr Hughes has produced an education kit for teachers about his experience of "unwrapping" the secrets of a mummy of a young woman who died around 715 BCE and reconstructing her face from x-ray images.

    Egyptology News 2010

  • Apple's process for finding and buying software, which eliminates steps such as unwrapping a box, putting the disc in a drive, running a setup program and picking a place for the application on the computer's hard drive.

    chron.com Chronicle 2010

  • Howe said many consumers will prefer Apple's process for finding and buying software, which eliminates steps such as unwrapping a box, putting the disc in a drive, running a setup program and picking a place for the application on the computer's hard drive.

    BusinessWeek.com -- Top News 2010

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