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On eight acres in Eastern Washington, Mark and Tami Garvin have uncorked a second career.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 20, 2019

He would have uncorked an 80-point game by now if he was much younger because "I just know my personality," he said.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 31, 2016

The synod meetings are closed to the media, but at daily briefings bishops have said that Francis appears serene and quite pleased to have uncorked a genuine debate.

From New York Times • Oct. 21, 2015

He lifts a box from the ooze: he appears to have uncorked the world.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873 by Various

If two strange girls had been invited, instead of two young men, should I not have uncorked the wine without a murmur?

From Wanderers by Worster, W. J. Alexander (William John Alexander)