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disentangle

[dis-en-tang-guhl] / ˌdɪs ɛnˈtæŋ gəl /


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And then, he insisted one should disentangle the benefits from the risk, as if that’s even possible.

From Salon ● Jun. 22, 2026

"I was talking with other students who believe this technology can be used in swarm robotics -- where small robots can entangle, do a task and then disentangle when they are done," said Pezeshki.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 15, 2026

“It took us decades of cooperation to get here and to disentangle all these things is really, really difficult,” said Gaurav Ganguly, head of international economics at Moody’s Analytics in London.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 7, 2026

Third, by demanding that plaintiffs disentangle race from politics, the court asks them to disprove the very structural reality that social network discrimination reveals.

From Slate ● May 22, 2026

Long before Descartes we can find references to laws of nature in a scientific context, and scholars have struggled to disentangle the origins of the concept.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

The researchers found it in much the same way that one disentangles a knot, by pulling on individual threads to see where they lead.

From Salon ● Apr. 6, 2024

Such a genetic signature was detected thanks to a new approach that disentangles 40,000 years of admixture and other confounding events.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 25, 2024

A new study published today disentangles this link in mice, showing that speeding up a mouse’s heart rate made otherwise calm animals act more anxious.

From Science Magazine ● Feb. 28, 2023

"Anyone who disentangles a whale would say that it's the best thing they've ever done," she says.

From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2022

But Abby disentangles from Nick and walks toward me.

From "Leah on the Offbeat" by Becky Albertalli

He was a brilliant, compelling and tricky fellow, a novelist and political philosopher who disentangled himself from early communism and became culture minister to Charles de Gaulle in the 1960s.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026

This means there are two separate reasons race and politics cannot be disentangled, only one of which depends on history.

From Slate ● May 22, 2026

We will now learn whether Sir Keir's decision-making can really be disentangled from McSweeney's in this way.

From BBC ● Feb. 10, 2026

While Figgis’ documentary doesn’t dwell on the problem, “Megadoc” does arguably end up suffering because that ethical knot is never fully disentangled.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2025

In the middle of the field, Ser Gregor Clegane disentangled himself and came boiling to his feet.

From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin

Late last year, she was reading a book called “Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage,” about a woman disentangling the family finances after her husband of 20 years abruptly leaves her.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 28, 2026

Data from the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation show transfers of state prison inmates to ICE custody have trended down since California began disentangling local and federal law enforcement.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 3, 2025

But disentangling this chicken-egg arrangement must start somewhere.

From Slate ● Oct. 20, 2024

Armed with the diaries, Saul, who lives in north London, began disentangling fact from fiction for a six-part podcast series, Devil in the Wilderness, for which he also composed the soundtrack.

From BBC ● Mar. 23, 2024

She hugged them tightly before disentangling herself from four arms.

From "Fever 1793" by Laurie Halse Anderson




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