come unglued
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It started in the third inning, when a steady drizzle, slippery ball and muddy mound caused Tyler Glasnow to come unglued.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 6, 2025
Cats love to have you around, but won't come unglued if you're not around to clean up after them for a few hours.
From Salon ● Dec. 8, 2023
Golden State won three championships and advanced to five straight finals from 2015 to 2019, before it all began to come unglued.
From New York Times ● May 26, 2022
SpaceX opted to fix the toilet issue anyway by making the toilet an “all-welded structure” so that there are no longer any parts or tubes that can come unglued.
From The Verge ● Oct. 29, 2021
So Sunflower bounced up, down, sideways, and backward, rearing and kicking and chopping, snorting furiously, only Herbie still wouldn’t come unglued.
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
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