unpicked

British

/ ʌnˈpɪkt /

adjective

(of knitting, sewing, etc) having been unravelled or picked out

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"Only when that has been unpicked can safeguards be put in place to ensure that it doesn't happen again."

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But writing the changes into a full Act of Parliament was meant to prevent the new rights being easily unpicked by a future government.

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A Reform government could indeed do so - although it would lead to some thorny legal problems if a lots of other laws linked to both were not unpicked at the same time.

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For years, the dark sides of reality TV have been unpicked.

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Bashir was picked after Ben Stokes saw a clip of him on social media, Dawson has been the unpicked social media darling.

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