Unfolding

Word UNFOLDING
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Definitions and meanings of "Unfolding"

What do we mean by unfolding?

To undo a folding.

To turn out; to happen; to develop.

To reveal.

To open (anything covered or closed); to lay open to view or contemplation; to bring out in all the details, or by successive development.

To release from a fold or pen.

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The word "unfolding" in example sentences

Referring to what he called the unfolding struggle by people for rights in the Middle East and North Africa, the president said that despite differences of opinion, Americans and Brazilians also share common aspirations. ❋ Unknown (2011)

It makes me think of a flower unfolding from a bud. ❋ Jennie Nash (2010)

Tag liked to give names to his favourite units and weapons, and the massive arclight particle projector cannon unfolding from the lead tocktank was the pride of his army. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Given our inescapable implication in the Urizenic terror unfolding from the past and still "surging sulphureous/Perturbed Immortal mad raging" (Copy D, Plate 7, lines 4-5; Copy G, Plate 10), the utopian overcoming of history through its completion as critical "knowledge" is no longer possible. ❋ Unknown (1997)

There was a certain unfolding sweetness in Eleanor's face, that was most like the opening of a rosebud just getting into full blossom; but the lips, unbent into happy lines, were a little shame-faced, and would not open to speak a word or ask another question. ❋ Unknown (1864)

Recalling the unfolding project 54 years ago, Niemeyer said that at first he did not think much of Kubitschek's idea of putting the city in the middle of the Cerrado, Brazil's arid savanna. ❋ Juan Forero (2010)

I told them on the day what they were doing, and they had the story unfolding, which is much more exciting. ❋ Dan Lybarger (2012)

BLITZER: It looks like we have a pretty good story that's unfolding, which is good for all of us. ❋ Unknown (2008)

I owe the notion of unfolding waves of consciousness to Wilber. ❋ Unknown (2007)

What many have speculated appears to be unfolding, which is a two way race between the ladies. ❋ Unknown (2006)

We listen to what's happening as it's being described by announcers and commentators who are trying to tell a story as it's unfolding, which is tricky enough, but it's made trickier because they're usually lousy storytellers. ❋ Unknown (2004)

His unfolding is a hymn of the origination of the world. ❋ Various (N/A)

Thus, vital action, as well in the physiological as in the intellectual and moral order, is called immanent, because it proceeds from that spontaneity which is essential to the living subject and has for its term the unfolding of the subject's constituent energies. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

Suffice it to suggest here that nature as she presides over organic evolution, that is, the unfolding of the germinal powers, may be conceived as a kindly but slow-going and cautious liberator. ❋ Francis Sydney Marvin (1903)

Nothing but the unfolding, which is as yet in the non - existing future, can explain the manner of the close folding of character. ❋ Alice Christiana Thompson Meynell (1884)

This deepest and most vital of all the processes of self-education and self-unfolding, which is brought to such perfection in men of the highest creative power, is the fundamental process of culture, -- the chief method which every man uses, consciously or unconsciously, who brings his nature to complete ripeness of quality and power. ❋ Hamilton Wright Mabie (1880)

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