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Six months later, pain still radiated from his back into his legs as he ran up and down the floor of a warehouse hooking and unhooking cows from milking machines.

From New York Times • Dec. 28, 2023

It can be physical work — it takes multiple people, for example, to turn a patient without unhooking any equipment.

From New York Times • Feb. 15, 2022

"I was hooking her up to the dialysis machine when the call came in. She started unhooking herself, got dressed and off she went."

From BBC • Mar. 23, 2019

“I caught some snow all the way from Ohio,” he said, while unhooking a Kia SUV from the trailer bed.

From Washington Post • Mar. 21, 2018

The major was unhooking the forceps now, dropping them in a basin.

From "A Farewell To Arms" by Ernest Hemingway