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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of unfurl.

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Examples

  • Perhaps the Sixers were inspired for a thrilling victory by the pregame festivities that included two banners for the Sixers championship teams unfurled from the rafters, along with one former public address announcer Dave Zinkoff.

    USATODAY.com 2008

  • Wisconsin unfurled last season's Final Four banner, but Northern

    NCAA Men's Basketball - Northern Illinois vs. Wisconsin 2000

  • Ariza has gone from looking like the epitomal Rockets player to the kind of unfurled, witless entity that threatens the team's balance.

    FanHouse Main 2010

  • Ariza has gone from looking like the epitomal Rockets player to the kind of unfurled, witless entity that threatens the team's balance.

    FanHouse Main 2010

  • Ariza has gone from looking like the epitomal Rockets player to the kind of unfurled, witless entity that threatens the team's balance.

    FanHouse Main 2010

  • He unfurled the parchment, and I saw it was covered on both sides with some indecipherable writing I figured must be fairy language, but at the bottom my name was clearly written in thick bloodred ink.

    Master of Mirrors Amanda Marrone 2011

  • The golden, starry wonders of the dark universe unfurled before the brave interstellar vessel “Argus” like a black flag of victory with a whole bunch of holes in it as the mysterious mission buoyantly commenced that would one day resolve critical questions about space, time, and the appropriate ratio of nuts to chips in a perfect chocolate chip cookie.

    Campbell and Strugeon Full Details sfawardswatch 2009

  • A Palestinian flag was unfurled at the site, and some of the demonstrators threw firecrackers at the building.

    Egypt to withdraw ambassador to Israel over ambush 2011

  • This attack unfurled upon future generations of the world without explanation, compensation, reclamation, or reparations

    Breast Cancer Awareness Doesn’t End on November 1 2009

  • This attack unfurled upon future generations of the world without explanation, compensation, reclamation, or reparations

    Skin of My Chest 2009

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