verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a key unlocks/opens sth
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The largest key unlocks the front door.
lock/unlock the door
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I locked the door and turned out the lights.
unlock/unleash sb’s potential (= allow them to succeed as well as they can )
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Training is a way of unlocking the potential of the workforce.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
car
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He unlocked the car , clicked off the interior light and pushed her across to the passenger seat.
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He unlocked the car door for me.
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He unlocked the car door, holding it for her while she slipped inside with a quiet murmur of thanks.
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On the forecourt he unlocked the car and threw the diaries across on to the passenger seat before sliding in behind the wheel.
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He unlocked his car door, opened it, slid with difficulty behind the wheel, closed the door.
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He fumbled for a kiss as she unlocked the car but she twisted her cheek away.
door
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The door was unlocked when we arrived.
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This is a man, after all, who leaves his car keys in the front seat with the doors unlocked .
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This time both Arabs got out and the back doors were unlocked .
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He located the key on the top of the door frame, unlocked , and turned on the light.
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The door was unlocked , so we opened it and went in.
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The concerns are real, and doing nothing is analogous to leaving a door unlocked in a high-crime neighborhood.
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He listens to me explaining that the front door was unlocked .
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I thought I could just leave the door unlocked after having pretended to lock it.
gate
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They unlocked this gate and thrust me through it, locked it behind me.
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He only could unlock the gate Of heaven, and let us in.
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To enter this sanctuary of green, Karim Alameddine unlocks a white iron gate .
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Mr Frost's nearly always there, and if he is, he unlocks the gates and lets us in.
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I went out through the main entrance and saw the watchman unlocking the gates .
key
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It is merely a key which unlocks a door.
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There are no keys to unlock doors.
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The symbol is the key used to unlock a life experience that is related to the goal of the session.
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That court keeps the key which unlocks the estate.
mystery
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For the song of the suffering servant helps unlock the mystery that defies logic.
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If I succeed it will unlock a lot of the mystery of what's been done on Titron.
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Within minutes detectives, a police surgeon and her family arrived to begin the task of unlocking the mystery of her disappearance.
secret
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I unlocked the secret , so to speak.
■ VERB
find
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They must find a way to unlock the defence other than by simply launching men head first into oblivion.
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I went to the humidor one day and found it unlocked .
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Then I could find the house and unlock the front door and go in and everything.
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Only once he found an unlocked door.
leave
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The lavatories also had a birthday, and Dad left ours unlocked with plenty of fresh newspaper on the nail.
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The concerns are real, and doing nothing is analogous to leaving a door unlocked in a high-crime neighborhood.
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I can't leave it unlocked .
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I thought I could just leave the door unlocked after having pretended to lock it.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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''Come and see'', Jo said, unlocking a huge iron gate.
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Unlock the door! We can't get out!
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Which of these keys unlocks the safe?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Half way along he unlocked a garage and let the door slide up to reveal a newish Range Rover.
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His tall house loomed over him as he unlocked the front door.
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I unlocked the door of the apartment and found that Edusha was still awake.
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I began working at Canary Wharf alongside the river, working in all sorts of media in order to unlock certain ideas.
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Rockhart says that the critical-success factor approach aims to unlock the manager's implicitly held model of success.
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You unlock the front door of your house.