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- verb Present participle of
unjam .
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Examples
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In the last day or so I've stumbled upon groggy earthworms while digging up more garden, watched a few potato bugs scurry as I finally raked up some leaves, and got my hand covered with pond scum while unjamming the filter.
Archive 2008-12-01 doyle 2008
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In the last day or so I've stumbled upon groggy earthworms while digging up more garden, watched a few potato bugs scurry as I finally raked up some leaves, and got my hand covered with pond scum while unjamming the filter.
Look, ma, no sunspots! doyle 2008
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After several rounds of printing out a few papers and unjamming the jam thing so I can print out a handful of others, it finally dies on me with one loud thump.
Botched Designs 2005
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But I knew to turn off the lawnmower and the weedeater before unjamming even before I worked for a manufacturing company, so maybe it's not that complicated.
"So then I realized I was in trouble." Ann Althouse 2007
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I spent a couple of minutes trying to work out the incomprehensible unjamming illustrations on the printer door before asking for help.
Grrrr aargh neil h 2006
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Can I just say that I always end up fixing those machines and unjamming them.
Archive 2006-01-01 Kerron Cross 2006
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Can I just say that I always end up fixing those machines and unjamming them.
Don't Copy Ming the Humourless Kerron Cross 2006
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In addition, they thought I was brilliant – fixing the computer, unjamming the copier, anticipating the need for extra brochures, always being sympathetic yet effective when dealing with phone calls – quite impressed my supervisors.
Before I was a post-doc: the receptionist job post-doc 2005
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That not only put out the fire, but also made for a tedious job unjamming the stove chute.
unknown title 2009
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That not only put out the fire, but also made for a tedious job unjamming the stove chute.
unknown title 2009
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