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- verb To
remove film from aspool . - verb slang To
screen a film.
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Examples
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Nonetheless, one of the biggest thrills of "Blood, Bones & Butter" is watching her self-discovery unspool as the independent streak she was forced to nurture at such a young age takes stronger and stronger hold.
Book review: 'Blood, Bones & Butter' delectable when chef Hamilton's in charge 2011
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The first to unspool his findings was David McKay, the NASA researcher who introduced the world to the softball-sized meteorite from Mars that, for a short time in the mid-1990s, was hailed as containing strong evidence that life once existed on that planet.
First Contact Marc Kaufman 2011
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As matters unspool, the protagonists come properly to life in after-the-event interviews and genuine surveillance video; police, dealers and the pixelated informant that led the former to the latter.
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Nonetheless, one of the biggest thrills of "Blood, Bones & Butter" is watching her self-discovery unspool as the independent streak she was forced to nurture at such a young age takes stronger and stronger hold.
Book review: 'Blood, Bones & Butter' delectable when chef Hamilton's in charge 2011
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From there, Mr. Cronenberg's dangerous methods unspool in a nearly comprehensive overview.
Histories and Mysteries Steve Dollar 2012
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FLATOW: So you just, basically, unspool it, like you were running a trans-Atlantic cable?
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FLATOW: So you just, basically, unspool it, like you were running a trans-Atlantic cable?
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FLATOW: So you just, basically, unspool it, like you were running a trans-Atlantic cable?
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FLATOW: So you just, basically, unspool it, like you were running a trans-Atlantic cable?
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It's a genre in which sweeping narratives somehow manage to unspool through tiny but highly specific movements like a sharply bowed finger or a knowing lift of the brow.
Priyadarsini Govind and Nrityagram Dance Ensemble offer intense Indian dance 2011
bilby commented on the word unspool
"The Lashkar has denied involvement, but remains the prime accused. According to the police and intelligence agencies, the Lashkar operates in India through an organization called the "Indian Mujahideen." Two Indian nationals, Sheikh Mukhtar Ahmed, a Special Police Officer working for the Jammu and Kashmir Police, and Tausif Rehman, a resident of Kolkata in West Bengal, have been arrested in connection with the Mumbai attacks.
So already the neat accusation against Pakistan is getting a little messy.
Almost always, when these stories unspool, they reveal a complicated global network of foot soldiers, trainers, recruiters, middlemen, and undercover intelligence and counter-intelligence operatives working not just on both sides of the India-Pakistan border, but in several countries simultaneously."
- Arundhati Roy, '9 Is Not 11 (And November Isn't September)', tomdispatch.com, 12 December 2008.
December 14, 2008