A woman next to me was unwrapping her own hands.
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After unwrapping, participants evaluated how much they liked their gifts.
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It draws you with its lyricism and its unwrapping of itself.
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ANYONE WHO has owned an iPod remembers the thrill of unwrapping it.
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"You shouldn't have!" they'll say, unwrapping their Spanish village on Christmas morning.
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While you're unwrapping gifts, scammers may be buying new ones using your info.
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We started playing with the thing, tossing it around and unwrapping the tape.
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MacNaughton: Up until recently, my cooking could be best described as "unwrapping" [laughs].
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Unwrapping it, I clearly saw that the sandwich had changed from my youth.
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The video shows armed guards unwrapping the pieces, which appear to be unscathed.
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They spent several minutes unwrapping them to hold them up for waiting photographers.
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So she ended up unwrapping them herself while Bianco watched on his phone.
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We could be unwrapping some rain and a touch of wind on Saturday.
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They'd offer an unconvincing "thanks" before setting it aside and unwrapping something else.
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"Watching a normal episode of TV is like unwrapping one big present," he says.
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Unwrapping the packaging, I find a sandwich that is just as big and bold.
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Then, he digs in, unwrapping each little morsel and popping them into his mouth.
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Once all the unwrapping action settles down, you'll probably have to make some returns.
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"As he began unwrapping the plastic, I looked at him questioningly," Ms. Hart said.
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Unwrapping my present, I felt my dry hospital skin against her soft, warm clothes.
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It's a time for family, for unwrapping presents and drinking eggnog in your pajamas.
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The safety warnings before Christmas didn't stop a lot of kids from unwrapping hoverboards.
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I unwrapped my roast beef sandwich like a child unwrapping the biggest gift at Christmas.
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Unwrapping it to discover which character is in the box will be half the fun.
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The holidays are here, and if you're lucky, you might be unwrapping a brand-new iPhone.
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Unwrapping a disc is just more fun than navigating the PlayStation Store to find a demo.
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When I ordered the chicken sandwich, I was impressed by its heft even before unwrapping it.
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After meticulously unwrapping a brace on his right knee, Duncan walked past the cameras without stopping.
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My whole therapy journey and what's happened — not journey; I hate that word — but unwrapping my pain.
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This includes memes like "bad baby," educational themes like learning colors, and viral trends like unwrapping candy.
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What if some poor girl in suburban America destroyed her Christmas gift just hours after unwrapping it?
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The shampoo smells like unwrapping a green apple Jolly Rancher, but without the headache-inducing, syrupy sweetness.
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So if you want to make YouTube videos of yourself whispering or methodically unwrapping something, there you go.
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Our Christmas meal basically never ends, and it's at least as important as the unwrapping of the gifts.
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On the other side of the room, the father and the four young people are unwrapping sandwiches and laughing.
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And not so much to the tearing, unwrapping, popping, and munching in a land of packaged (and processed) snacks.
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Everytime I open my Explore page I'm met with videos of teens unwrapping, poking, squishing, pulling and prodding homemade slime.
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But aside from the joy of unwrapping a new luxury cream or perfume, samples also serve a real functional purpose.
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We may have abandoned public mummy unwrappings, but is displaying mummies next to their CT scans simply a virtual unwrapping?
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Footage released by the president's office showed Ukrainian border guards unwrapping the paintings, which had been covered with plastic sheets.
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Gwen Stefani is unwrapping some of her favorite holiday tunes (including some of her own originals!) for TuneIn's "Holiday Hits" channel.
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Meanwhile, you're sitting there sadly unwrapping your discount Kevin Shattenkirk signing and trying to get excited about an Artemi Panarin trade.
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The virtual unwrapping software package is called Volume Cartography, and it should be available sometime next year as open-source software.
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But now that we are unwrapping the box, it turns out there are some new items that were worth waiting for.
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But those used to unwrapping, say, a smartphone, and getting started after a few taps may find the Rift's setup laborious.
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Even as a well-adjusted adult, I still revel in unwrapping cosmetics and skin-care gifts around my family's Christmas tree.
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Then, as your guests are unwrapping themselves from scarves and hats and winter coats, simply pop them, frozen, into the oven.
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THERAPY DOGS LINDA, MISS PEANUT GET PICTURES IN SCHOOL YEARBOOKS Howell also shared a video of himself unwrapping the unusually large box.
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Teigen responds with "I love you," to which Legends says "I love you too" and continues to work on unwrapping her hairstyle.
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The heartwarming video of little Ben unwrapping the trophy went viral after Liam Herbert, a pediatric radiographer, shared the video on Twitter.
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In the last scene, the Grey-Shepard clan is shown happily unwrapping the presents and Meredith watches with a look of calmness.
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Christmas means fighting with your family about what to watch after a day of incessant eating and unwrapping presents (best case scenario).
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Have you ever gotten the same kick out of watching an mp3 download as unwrapping a record and poring over the sleeve?
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After unwrapping my key card from a whimsically illustrated map of the hotel, I stepped into my 12th floor Corner King room.
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It was more or less how I would react coming across a group of Chinese tourists in Times Square unwrapping Ding Dongs.
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Unwrapping any book in the post is always a little bit exciting, but now imagine it's your book that you actually wrote yourself.
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As many in the retail industry predicted, millions of people are unwrapping a Vive, Rift, PlayStation VR, or some other virtual reality device.
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That year, I had become fond of swinging my university lanyard with my key in circles, wrapping and unwrapping it around my finger.
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Whether you're unwrapping a burrito, microwaving leftovers, or shaking up a desk salad, lunch mates often feel the need to comment when food arrives.
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But unwrapping your toy has put you on the naughty list, and you'll wish it was as simple as getting a lump of coal.
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Of course, not all is as it seems in said town, and you're soon solving a murder and unwrapping the secrets of the village.
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He estimates it could take the team of scientists and students more than six months to read through the scroll using their virtual unwrapping software.
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And lucky for us, plenty of big name grocery stores offer up a smorgasbord of seasonal goods that come ready for instant unwrapping and noshing.
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The coke remained covered, of course—the white powder was still secured in brown paper, like gifts whose contents you already know without unwrapping them.
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Luckily, Gavin Fitzgerald, the filmmaker of 'The Notorious' documentary series, saw me unwrapping my new tool from its packaging and took some sympathy on me.
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Unwrapping the anti-Ovi sentiment is nettlesome business, because all he's ever done since entering the league in 2005-06 is inject it with excitement.
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During the unwrapping, keep a paper grocery bag next to you and play "can you dunk it?" with the bows that come off the presents.
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It appears that the institutions put out the press release before publication to coincide with the 185th anniversary of the unwrapping of Takabuti in Belfast.
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They rose in popularity partially because of kids' innate desire to collect, but also because of social media videos of other kids unwrapping these toys.
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I once spent an entire day at a local Shanghainese woman's house with my family, unwrapping, cracking, and sucking the meat out of the crustaceans.
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He has since developed a method, called virtual unwrapping, to model the surface of an ancient scroll in the form of a mesh of tiny triangles.
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At the time, I never thought anything would compare to the pure joy I felt when unwrapping soft teddy bears, sweet dolls, and other exciting toys.
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But unboxing and unwrapping the plants, cleaning them off, righting their travel-worn bodies, and wiping up all the dirt they left behind was a hassle.
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" Her two-year-old "spent at least an hour methodically taking each one out of the box, carefully unwrapping it and then moving onto the next.
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What "Toy Story 4" offers, though, is the sentimental pleasure of getting a favourite old plaything from the attic, rather than the thrill of unwrapping something new.
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Like her previous unwrapping video of a gift from the Carters, the actress brought her mom Betty back to help guess what Beyoncé may have given her.
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Image: AmazonAs mentioned, that means having all the packaging, cables, documentation, and so on—something to bear in mind when unwrapping gifts and setting up your new gadgets.
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Kathleen Treanor told the story about Ashley, and the phone call, and the tiny hand; Jerry Flowers remembered unwrapping a blanket to find a child without a face.
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As he went about unwrapping a piece of gum and putting it into his mouth, Baez fumbled it once, then twice before snatching it out of the air.
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Loads of consumers are going to be unwrapping their Echo Dots this weekend after the gadget was the best-selling item on Prime Day, Amazon's annual shopping gala.
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Whether it's a mom looking on at kids unwrapping presents or a roommate watching their friend prepare to get sloshed, the feeling is more or less the same.
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It's hard to deny the appeal of vinyl's physicality—the blissful ritual of unwrapping a fresh record and throwing it on a turntable with your own two hands.
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There are the unboxing videos posted on YouTube: People exulting in receiving the precious new metallic rectangle, lovingly unwrapping it, boasting to the world of their ownership of it.
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If there is outrage, it should be directed at the amount of plastic wrap; after unwrapping 60-plus items, I had filled a small kitchen trash bag with packaging.
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When a painting arrived in [the Swiss family villa in] Lugano, my father was like a little boy at Christmas, unwrapping a painting and deciding where it would hang.
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Waddell has bragged online that he snuck the fish into the arena by vacuum sealing it and stuffing it into his shorts ... then unwrapping it in a bathroom once inside.
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In a video posted on Twitter by Jeffrey Jr., Lorrie is seen slowly unwrapping the gift while surrounded by family, hilariously asking "Is it pizza?" as she examines the box.
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In the opening room of the Mummies exhibition there is a display that refers to the public spectacle of unwrapping mummies popular in Europe and the U.S. a century ago.
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She would teach her the habit of unwrapping your presents carefully and then ironing [the wrapping paper] and putting it back in a drawer so you could use it again.
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There is a gruesome irony in the obsession with unwrapping and humanizing mummies as a sign of respect if the entire point of the process, for ancient Egyptians, was deification.
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Her YouTube videos, which have garnered hundreds of thousands of views, show her singing along to pop songs, doing makeup tutorials, unwrapping gifts from fans and reviewing restaurants in Erbil.
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Tallman astutely points out that by placing them on the paper, Bloom has turned an index into an icon, reminding the receiver of the history of past unwrapping and exchanging.
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A group of volunteers are working tirelessly this holiday season to ensure that needy kids in their community will get to experience the thrill of unwrapping a bike on Christmas morning.
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" Unwrapping one of the foil parcels, she explains: "So, I work on a channeled system to see whether we can feed the cells as time goes along and keep them alive.
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New research* into the unwrapping of presents by two professors at the Yale School of Management and one at the University of Miami bravely applies rigour where sentimentality has long ruled.
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We were sitting in the plant's cafeteria, and Stinson was unwrapping an Italian sub, supplied by a deli that every Thursday offers plant workers sandwiches for four dollars instead of eight.
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Reading through "The Art of the Dinner Party" felt like unwrapping a special birthday present that a loved one had put hours of careful thought into making perfect just for me.
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Despite the eye-rolling I engaged in when learning about Kondo's online store (and, admittedly, once again when I saw the box on my doorstep), I felt giddy unwrapping the items.
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Pulling a crispy-skinned, tied-with-twine chicken out of the oven is a cooking moment akin to unwrapping presents on Christmas day and one everyone should have the joy of experiencing.
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It's fun to imagine Prince doing ordinary things here, like unwrapping a microwave pizza, waiting impatiently for it to cook, and then getting molten cheese plastered to the roof of his mouth.
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"It was unique and perfect and didn't need a remix at all, but what I could imagine was in fact a 10 minute-lasting, slowly unwrapping-itself version," he told the site.
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The NFL's schedule release is like Christmas morning — that is, if after unwrapping all of your gifts, you sat and stared at them for 4 1/193 months before unboxing the goods.
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Moments later the customers are shown unwrapping their burgers, ready to eat and forget the kid having a terrible day, only to find it their Whopper Jr. has been punched, "bullied," to smithereens.
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While the holiday season is the most popular time of year for engagements, you needn't be expecting a diamond sparkler to experience the thrill of unwrapping a piece of jewelry you'll cherish forever.
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When kitchens were being wrapped in a shimmering gauze of glamour, Mr. Bourdain got busy unwrapping them, revealing the injuries and addictions, low wages and high tempers that took a toll on workers.
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There is such joy in the process of unwrapping, opening, smelling, and lighting them that we&aposve already started gifting them to friends and family despite having just learned about them this week.
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But by December – notably a month when developers rush to be ready for the numerous users unwrapping new iPhones and installing apps – growth slowed to 65 percent, bringing the store to 3,700 iMessage apps.
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I remember my mom coaching me on what to say at childhood birthday parties when unwrapping the Barbie du jour; this was the requisite after-cake activity (saying "I already have that" — not good).
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Her character's self-centeredness does nothing to suppress her obvious allure, made potent by the simplest of acting choices, like the way she wipes her mouth without unwrapping the diner napkin from the cutlery.
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Like a child excitedly unwrapping presents on Christmas morning, Mr. Smith travels every year from his house near Heathrow International Airport to Trafalgar Square after the tree is erected just to get a glimpse.
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That's still the truth, but now the cellophane wrapped around a cardboard box with a plastic container of moisturizer inside isn't seen as an exciting way to re-create the experience of unwrapping a gift.
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While I've spent the majority of this election cycle pretending I wasn't disturbed or hopeless, East of West illustrated the world around me with the feelings I couldn't express—not unlike unwrapping a festering wound.
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Over the course of an hour's worth of unwrapping, I watched the adorable 1-year-old become buried in more toys, books, clothes, and gadgets than anyone could possibly need — or use — in a lifetime.
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Once Yoshi saws off the head, he pulls out a pair of ice packs from inside the fish and the crowd's eyes pop in surprise, a moment that Way equates to a Christmas morning unwrapping.
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He was unwrapping vintage items from the early 21870s: An amber bottle filled with German Salts; a glass container of Violet Witch Hazel with a crown top; a round, pink box that once held pills.
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FONSECA-WOLLHEIM I try to impress upon them the need to keep questions until afterward, to clap when others are clapping, and to even be mindful of the noise of turning pages or unwrapping sweets.
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The simple act of unwrapping a piece of chocolate can be enough to keep you from eating more than you truly want—one of the few times being lazy actually works to your weight-loss advantage.
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The defense insisted Garcia Zarate had stumbled across the gun, which was cloaked in cloth, and accidentally set it off while he was unwrapping it, sending a bullet ricocheting off the ground before it struck Steinle.
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Unwrapping the cabbage leaf around it, cutting into the handsomely roasted bird surrounded by foie gras stuffing, and dipping slices of excellent house-baked baguette into the glossy dark sauce is a sure route to Francophilia.
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If you think a kid's face lights up when they get yet another rendition of a Paw Patrol toy, just wait until you see an adult's face whilst unwrapping the new vacuum they've been wanting for.
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It's six in the morning, you're under-caffeinated and about to throw yourself into whatever heavy lifting and setting up there is going on: unloading tables, unwrapping wires, setting up lights, the breakfast area, wardrobe, etc.
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I found mothering a constant struggle — learning how to diaper my daughter without splattering her poo everywhere, figuring out how to collapse the stroller and get it into the car, swaddling her without her unwrapping it.
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While unwrapping a monetary present may not be as thrilling as getting this year's hottest toy, it is not as unexciting as it sounds, according to Jill Fopiano, the CEO of O'Brien Wealth Partners in Boston.
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While the 'mummy' at this event was able to get up from the table and walk off, I wonder what became of the mummies' bodies after the spectacle of the unwrapping was over back in Victorian times.
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Science and experience tell us that it's not unwrapping that gadget you've been coveting for months or enjoying that second helping of pudding that makes the holidays so joyful: It's giving back to the ones we love.
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The app's arrival hits at one of the busiest times of the year – the U.S. holidays, when many people are unwrapping their new Apple devices for the first time, and potentially running into issues or having questions.
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By having animator Clem Stamation fake the cross-stitch effect using clever computer animation and compositing, Chong saved the wrists of all those seniors and freed up their time for more serious pursuits, like unwrapping hard candies.
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The girl made the shocking discovery while unwrapping her 4-year-old brother's hamburger and found it inside the wrapper, Taylor Police Chief Henry Fluck said at a news conference on Friday, local TV station KTRK reports.
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I remember in my early teens unwrapping a Christmas present from my evangelical parents to find a copy of "God's Smuggler," by Brother Andrew, an account of a Dutch Christian's adventures smuggling Bibles into the Soviet bloc.
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That's a departure from the 1933 original, which boasted state-of-the-art spectacles (by the standards then), including the now-classic sequence of Claude Rains unwrapping the bandages from his face to reveal a cackling wraith.
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Our culture still treasures the act of unwrapping a physical item, and we still treasure gadgets, it's just that today our gadgets watch us and are loss leaders for an economy built on surveillance and ad technology.
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Remember when you were a kid and there was no sweeter feeling than unwrapping a packet of Pokémon cards in the playground, only to watch a shiny Charizard fall out, laying on the tarmac, glittering in the sun?
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While the same can't be said of past practices (hell, we even used to use ground-up mummies for paint), unwrapping a mummy today would be considered "totally unethical," comments Dawson in an email to The Creators Project.
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They're for floating around in your complimentary fluffy robe, which you slide slowly and alluringly out of for your romantic partner, who is, of course, reclining on the bed, unwrapping an individually plastic-wrapped slice of dragon fruit.
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These disassemblies could be more spectacle than research, such as the infamous Victorian mummy unwrapping parties, or a hazard of grave robbing, as with an Egyptian mummy on view whose coffin was broken in a search for valuables.
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It's that time of year again: heading home to spend time with family, sitting around the fire unwrapping presents, and, if you're one of U.C.B.'s improv performers, hearing various relatives pitch you their hilarious ideas for comedy skits.
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All that unboxing and unwrapping: I can remember unpacking boxes of clothes, each in their own bag, discarding the bags, then placing each article in a new bag with its new owner and sending it home, rinse and repeat.
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Starbucks said most of its stores will be open on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day for those of you who need caffeine to power through late-night gift wrapping or the crack-of-dawn frenzy of kids unwrapping presents.
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The holidays are here, and if you're unwrapping a new Kindle (or a non-Amazon-branded e-reader, or just a device with an e-book app on it), you might be looking for some new books to read.
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For shorter routes, though, it seems as if you'll still have to pony up for food on the flight, make do with pretzels, or otherwise suffer the indignity of unwrapping whatever weirdly pungent food you purchased in the terminal.
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Taken a few weeks ago (Image: Ryan F. Mandelbaum)You can't just learn to fidget your spinner while walking around the wealthiest parts of Manhattan between all of the vaping fashionistas, so I ducked into a SoHo alley for the unwrapping.
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Of all my memories of that summer in Peru—drinking pisco in the desert, finding a mummified baby, unwrapping it under less than scientifically optimal conditions— the one that stands out most is the memory of my first lucid dream.
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Sure, it may seem sexy in the moment, but unwrapping a condom with your mouth could lead to you or your partner unintentionally biting the latex and ripping the condom, and it's not so sexy when the condom breaks during sex.
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"You see?" he said to his American wife, pointing to the sink where, without thinking, I was rinsing out the plastic yogurt cup I'd just emptied, unwrapping its cardboard sleeve and separating the foil from the lip of the container.
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Unwrapping happened in a few fits and starts, and I did, at one point, consider with some amazement how sleekly this whimsical grid came together, as far as four lengthy pairs of theme entries gliding through the puzzle like coelacanths.
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We covered Dojo-Labs last November, when it launched out of stealth — unwrapping a pebble-shaped consumer focused Internet of Things security device, called Dojo, designed to monitor network traffic and flag and block anomalous behavior by connected devices on the home network.
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Beyond the visual charm of Christmas lights and the auditory joy of Donny Hathaway's "This Christmas," the tactile pleasure of unwrapping a present and the sweet taste of sipping eggnog, the holidays also include the delightful scent of…11 herbs and spices?
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For anyone who hasn't had the pleasure of breathlessly unwrapping the tin foil casing of a Tunnock's tea cake, the snack is made up of a shortbread base, topped with a mound of marshmallowy meringue enshrined in a thin casing of milk chocolate.
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Behold then another luxury sex album, as voluptuous as his usual music, albeit on a more specific thematic level (I don't know of another R&B album, or Christmas album, that so regularly invokes the act of unwrapping presents as an erotic metaphor).
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Over the weekend, a Facebook page called "I'M STILL SO NYC"—all caps all theirs – posted a 22-second video of a man on the New York City subway calmly unwrapping a stick of butter and taking a giant bite out of it.
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This offers a stark contrast to baby showers for women that, with the all requisite unwrapping of and discussions around baby stuff, are easily dominated by the how-tos of motherhood rather than with marking the joyful life change a child ideally represents.
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Referencing a lyric from the pair's holiday song "You Make It Feel Like Christmas" — "I never thought I'd find a love like this / but I found forever in that very first kiss" -— Today's Natalie Morales inquired whether Stefani might be unwrapping a diamond ring this year.
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Wilfork, who rose to prominence in BBQ circles when his wife shared a video of him dancing while 'Qing, makes his appearance in the video walking down the halls of an ambiguous locker room which then cuts to a shot of him unwrapping the tape from his cleats.
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Not only did unwrapping its sweet and promising corners take me straight to being back in my grandparents' front room in front of a roaring fire and haze of dog hair, it was also actually kind of delicious, with hard chocolate giving way to a soft, chocolate fondant filling.
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It's easy to forget this film is set at Christmastime, given how fun it is, but much of it takes place in and around a Christmas Eve party the Charleses throw, and it adds just the right mood to a mystery that's as much fun as unwrapping presents.
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So for those wondering how good their gift haul from the rich will be this holiday season, the best answer is that the more younger, retired gift buyers you have in your network of family and friends, the more likely you are to be pleasantly surprised as the unwrapping begins.
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The three-inch (7.5-cm) critter went unnoticed for a few days in the refrigerator in Princeton, New Jersey, before Sally Mabon and her daughter Faye found its limp body while unwrapping a bunch of tatsoi, an Asian leaf, science teacher Mark Eastburn of Riverside Elementary School in Princeton said on Tuesday.
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I anxiously await the moment I can break out my favorite sweaters (oftentimes starting to wear them long before it's actually cool enough to) and feel like a kid unwrapping a birthday present when I dig my jackets and wool pants out of storage, ready and waiting for another season of wear.
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Unwrapping one such package at Momofuku Ssam Bar recently I was extra interested, because the restaurant has a new chef named Max Ng who is a citizen of Singapore, and one of the dishes he has brought with him from that country is a whole skate wing cooked in a banana leaf.
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But it's not the same kind of need that they had when they were babies, when I was waiting to see them crawl or hunched over them as they learned to walk; when I'd walk into the baby's room every morning feeling like I was unwrapping some fantastic and much-longed-for gift.
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If you have even the barest appreciation for hard rock or heavy metal—or if, like me, you still remember unwrapping a copy of Master of Puppets on Christmas morning when you were 12 and feeling your blown brains dribble out your ears shortly thereafter—you're going to enjoy a Metallica show, and this was no typical Metallica show.
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Mummies in particular were all the rage: The 22001 London World's Fair included an Egyptian bazaar, and 20143,22014 entrants to the 21999 Franco-British Exhibition saw an exhibit in which a mummy transformed into Pharaoh's daughter and back again; societies and lecturers would host "unwrapping parties" in Victorian England in which mummified corpses were dramatically revealed to the public.
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In his performance on Thursday, Hector Canonge appeared with his feet stained by ash, slowly unwrapping himself from a costume of black cloth and leaves, chewing the dead leaves like some penitent awoke from a long slumber, finding himself suddenly alive when he did not expect to be, and shedding his clothing to remember who he is.
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Still, the book cover challenge was both "lighthearted and inspiring," Baker said, in part because it evoked the thrill of possession she experienced upon unwrapping a special-ordered copy of Jean Stein's 1982 "Edie: An American Girl" one long-ago Nantucket summer and also because — as with so much else on social media — the stakes of playing along were negligible.
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Never miss a story — sign up for PEOPLE's free daily newsletter to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from juicy celebrity news to compelling human interest stories Featuring ambient vacuum noises and the occasional cat's meow, the extended clip is perfectly suited for background noise while unwrapping gifts on Christmas morning or for falling asleep to comforting cat content.
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Those who listened to him daily detected human touches: his succulent enthusiasm for the trolley service of drinks and light refreshments that would be available on this train, as if he was already unwrapping a tuna sandwich; his palpable excitement at the words "London Midland" or "Cross Country"; his interesting hesitation, when announcing the Bournemouth service, between "Brockenhurst" and "Sway", as though he doubted for a moment whether tiny Sway existed.
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Older ladies with hair tied up in netted bunsHanded over the knishToo hotAnyway unwrapping the crackling clear paperSpotted with drops of oilBurning your mouth if you could not wait toSink your teeth into the smooth potatoOr grace the roof of your mouth with the grainy kashaIn the summer we walked eating themOut under the ElDown Coney Island Avenue one blockTo the Boardwalk & BeachIn the winter we ate them in the storeSitting on metal seatsCrowded around a small Formica tableWith best friendsThe store became our sanctuaryMrs.
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It quickly became incredibly popular, to the point that Michael Jackson once mandated that anyone who visited his Neverland estate would be subject to either a water balloon or super soaker attack (check out a video of Jackson talking about how much he loves Super Soakers here; his words are prefaced by a video of him unwrapping them at Christmas with Elizabeth Taylor.) Still, Johnson (who declined to be interviewed for this article) shouldn't be remembered for the Super Soaker as much as he should be remembered as the guy who possibly fucked up the curtains in his bathroom because he made a weird water pump.
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