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- verb Present participle of
unroll .
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Examples
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So I think that this is a normal kind of unrolling of events here, a normal procedure.
Press Briefing By Madeleine Albright And Sandy Berger ITY National Archives 1998
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A strange, a terribly strange, region was unrolling itself before my eyes.
Chapter 8 2010
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Skewer them (single or in a line) to keep them from unrolling themselves in the pan.
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Looks elaborate, but is simple and delicious: * very* thinly sliced eggplant rolled around feta sticks, skewered to keep them from unrolling themselves and panfried.
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But I must enter some explanation of our unrolling of our tightening over the past two years.
WSJ Transcript of RBI Interview Alex Frangos 2012
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Slowly, cautiously, it was unrolling its ball of impregnable armour.
The Lair 2010
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The cinema is a machine for unrolling certain regular patterns called pictures; expressing the most vulgar millionaires 'notion of the taste of the most vulgar millions.
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They descended the stairs with precision, unrolling a red carpet and tucking it securely onto each step.
GuildWars Edge of Destiny J. Robert King 2011
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The photography is a major part of any art project, and I get tired of hefting the kitchen table into the studio and unrolling the backdrop paper every time I want to photograph something.
Kater’s Art » Blog Archive » 48 Birds #1: The songbird that teaches 2009
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They watch from afar the events unrolling in their home country, where West African efforts to get Mr. Gbagbo to step down have failed.
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