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Meaning: (informal,idiomatic)Tounleasha greatlydestructiveforce.2017, Lesley Paterson,The Brave Athlete: Calm the F*ck Down and Rise to the Occasion,VeloPress,→ISBN,page171:Science now supports a cognitive appraisal model for understanding why some athletes can take everything in stride while othersrelease the kraken.2019, Tess Gerritsen,The Shape of Night: The spine-tingling thriller from the Sunday Times bestseller, Random House,→ISBN,page15:I haul the pet carrier into the house andrelease the kraken. Hannibal emerges from the cage, glares at me, and lumbers off toward the kitchen.2020, Greg Cox,The Librarians Trilogy: The Librarians and the Lost Lamp, The Librarians and the Mother Goose Chase, The Librarians and the Pot of Gold, Tom Doherty Associates,→ISBN,page237:"I believe we can safely pronounce the gods appeased." "So case closed?" Baird asked. "No more 'Release the Kraken'scenarios for the time being?" "I believe so."2021, Brad Raffensperger, quotingSidney Powell,Integrity Counts, Simon and Schuster,→ISBN,page57:She also claimed that governors and secretaries of state had "financial interests" in the voting machine company, and that they or their families had been enriched because of it. "I'm going torelease the kraken," she said.; Used other than figuratively or idiomatically:seerelease,Kraken.
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