uncork
verb (used with object)
to draw the cork from.
has uncorked
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present perfectof uncork (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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But in the Garden State, the scandal has uncorked an even more powerful political tempest.
From New York Times ● Mar. 13, 2024
The law has uncorked ridicule from even the Kremlin’s fiercest backers and sparked “outrage” from France’s Champagne Committee, the powerful umbrella group of French champagne makers.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 7, 2021
Radiohead has uncorked more snarl before, and strained harder against formalities, but rarely has it sounded surer of its strengths — or more flat-out gorgeous, as Jonny Greenwood’s orchestrations deepen the glassy disquiet.
From New York Times ● Dec. 7, 2016
Williams has uncorked 446 aces this year or 9.5 per match, her most prolific rate since she returned from an 11-month absence in 2010 and 2011 because of illness and injury.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 29, 2015
Hungary's decision four months ago to dismantle the barbed-wire fences along its border with Austria has uncorked the largest flood of cross-border escapes since the Berlin Wall was erected in 1961.
From Time Magazine Archive
