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“As he unkeyed his microphone, he hit the T.W.A. and cut it in half,” Mr. Bernhard recalled, referring to the end of the pilot’s transmission.

From New York Times • Dec. 14, 2010

Ollyett and I did not need to lift our little fingers any more than the Alpine climber whose last sentence has unkeyed the arch of the avalanche.

From A Diversity of Creatures by Kipling, Rudyard

Also, by wholly mechanical processes of adjustment to environment, her manner and air became simpler, somewhat unkeyed: she unconsciously folded away her more shining wings.

From V. V.'s Eyes by Harrison, Henry Sydnor

They took longer than usual to-night; both of them were unkeyed and had to compose themselves to the affair.

From The Second Class Passenger Fifteen Stories by Gibbon, Perceval