to unwrap
- verb
- /ʌnˈræp/
- It is your job to unwrap the data and the insights and present them as logically and with the simplest flow possible.
Examples
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During the press conference, the scientist will unwrap the groundbreaking research findings to the audience.
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Training was provided to teachers and administrators on how to identify and "unwrap" priority standards to determine what students must be able to know and do relative to the curriculum.
Academic text (2014) -
What made this message so scary is that when people went to "unwrap" the text, they realized the organization had no face.
Blog text (5) -
" I am currently attempting to unwrap a particular historical puzzle, and I have need of my volume of Egyptology."
Blog text (4) -
In order to effectively teach elementary mathematics, teacher candidates must unwrap their misconceptions about mathematics teaching.
Academic text (2008) -
To provide culturally relevant services, practitioners must unwrap the secular terminology used to express the underlying therapeutic precepts and then repackage the precepts in terminology that reflects Islamic teaching.
Academic text (2008) -
The documentary will unwrap the truth behind the mysterious event that took place years ago.
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The article aims to unwrap the complexities of the political situation for the general public.
Synonyms
Show something that was hidden or secret
To make news known quickly
Reveal hidden facts or bad actions to people
Reveal secret facts to the public
To tell people information that was secret
To tell secret information to the public without permission
To reveal secret information, often by mistake
Tell a secret on purpose or by accident
To make something known for the first time
To tell secret or private information to people
Tell secret or private information to other people
Show what someone or something really is
To show facts that were hidden before
Tell a secret by accident before others know
Make secret information known to the public
Reveal secret information that shocks people
Accidentally tell someone something you want to keep secret
To tell a secret that should be kept
To reveal information that was previously hidden
To show something hidden so people can see it
To tell everything about yourself, including private things
To reveal something hidden or forgotten
To tell a secret by accident and spoil a surprise
To make a secret suddenly become known
Reveal information that was hidden during a study or experiment
To make something hidden become visible by removing a cover or showing the truth
To show a company's private information to others, often during business talks
To tell a secret carelessly or without meaning to
Antonyms
How Revealed
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word unwrap uses un- meaning 'to remove' and wrap meaning 'to cover', and a helpful way to remember this sense is to think of taking the cover off a secret. That's why to unwrap information is to 'reveal' or 'make it known'.