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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of unharness.

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Examples

  • In November, the officers complained in a letter to Police Chief Jeffrey Baskoff that Melvin publicly humiliated them and subjected them to his "unharnessed" temper.

    Daytona Beach News-Journal Online By PATRICIO G. BALONA 2010

  • In November, the officers complained in a letter to Police Chief Jeffrey Baskoff that Melvin publicly humiliated them and subjected them to his "unharnessed" temper.

    Daytona Beach News-Journal Online By PATRICIO G. BALONA 2010

  • Worse, consider if they had declared that song was dangerous, an unharnessed form of speech that acoustically shifted too much and led to the production of sound being too out of control, and possibly causing loss of speech and mind.

    The Bushman Way of Tracking God PhD Bradford Keeney 2010

  • More than any other country in Europe, Scotland's coastline is blessed with abundant, if unharnessed, marine energy.

    SNP hopes a new wave can carry Scotland to independence 2011

  • Those models, like today's recalled Graco ones, have a risk of entrapment and strangulation, which can occur when infants are left unharnessed in the strollers.

    Graco recalls 2 million strollers after four infants strangle. Largest stroller recall in history 2010

  • If a child is placed in the stroller unharnessed, the tray and grab bar have a big enough gap under them to allow a child's torso, but not the child's head, to slip through.

    The Zooper Waltz stroller is unsafe 2011

  • The problem: if a child is placed in the stroller unharnessed something you should never do, this stroller's tray and grab bar have a gap big enough under them to allow an unharnessed child's torso, but not the child's head, to pass.

    Consumer Reports finds Zooper Waltz stroller a safety risk 2011

  • But only about 30 percent of that power is captured, Gillespie estimated, with the rest dissipating, unharnessed.

    U.S. Subways Harness Kinetic Power To Recycle Train Energy AP 2010

  • But, he adds, There's a basic talent and resourcefulness in Italy that if unharnessed, if they're not shackled by current labor laws and so on, could work.

    Is Italy Ungovernable? Raymond Zhong 2011

  • But, he adds, There's a basic talent and resourcefulness in Italy that if unharnessed, if they're not shackled by current labor laws and so on, could work.

    Is Italy Ungovernable? Raymond Zhong 2011

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