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

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Examples

  • McGovern ... seductively unreels Betsy's pursuit of the truth one shocking spool at a time.

    Neighborhood Watch by Cammie McGovern: Book summary 2010

  • As with last May's Thor, Marvel's Captain America: The First Avenger, directed by Joe Johnston and starring Chris Evans as the iconic superhero, unreels with machine-like efficiency from end-to-end.

    Zaki Hasan: Zaki's Review: Captain America: The First Avengers Zaki Hasan 2011

  • As with last May's Thor, Marvel's Captain America: The First Avenger, directed by Joe Johnston and starring Chris Evans as the iconic superhero, unreels with machine-like efficiency from end-to-end.

    Zaki Hasan: Zaki's Review: Captain America: The First Avengers Zaki Hasan 2011

  • The story unreels before the eyes of a 13-year-old girl, so the language of the book is her language.

    Peter Abrahams discusses his first book for children, Down The Rabbit Hole, the first in the Echo Falls mystery series. 2010

  • As with last May's Thor, Marvel's Captain America: The First Avenger, directed by Joe Johnston and starring Chris Evans as the iconic superhero, unreels with machine-like efficiency from end-to-end.

    Zaki Hasan: Zaki's Review: Captain America: The First Avengers Zaki Hasan 2011

  • As with last May's Thor, Marvel's Captain America: The First Avenger, directed by Joe Johnston and starring Chris Evans as the iconic superhero, unreels with machine-like efficiency from end-to-end.

    Zaki Hasan: Zaki's Review: Captain America: The First Avengers Zaki Hasan 2011

  • Bruce Watson's remarkable "Freedom Summer," a well-researched, vivid retelling of the 1964 civil rights crusade to put Mississippi's 200,000 disfranchised blacks on the voting rolls, makes no mention of Reagan's Philadelphia visit as its story unreels kaleidoscopically from the nighttime abduction of Goodman, Chaney and Schwerner on June 21 to the high noon exhumation of their remains on Aug. 4 as a horrified world looked on.

    Book Review Roundup 2010

  • Particularly in "The Crisis," Posner unreels any number of sharp insights about shareholders, regulation and economists.

    Robert Teitelman: A Few Lessons From the Crisis Robert Teitelman 2010

  • Bruce Watson's remarkable "Freedom Summer," a well-researched, vivid retelling of the 1964 civil rights crusade to put Mississippi's 200,000 disfranchised blacks on the voting rolls, makes no mention of Reagan's Philadelphia visit as its story unreels kaleidoscopically from the nighttime abduction of Goodman, Chaney and Schwerner on June 21 to the high noon exhumation of their remains on Aug. 4 as a horrified world looked on.

    Book Review Roundup 2010

  • The director yells, "Action", and a scene worthy of the big screen unreels.

    The Power of 2" by 3" ** Judith "Jlo" Quinton 2007

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