disentangle

Example Sentences

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Their lives intersect, then disentangle, then return to each other’s orbit again.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 20, 2026

Teenagers who listen to aggressive music differ from those who don’t in ways that are hard to observe and harder to disentangle.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 2, 2026

"Investigating such rare familial clusters offers a rare window into the polygenic inheritance of resilience and may help disentangle the genetic and epigenetic contributions to extreme longevity," notes Dr. de Castro.

From Science Daily • Jan. 8, 2026

“There's this thing that we all have called personal subjective consciousness, and that becomes hard to disentangle from the concept of self.”

From Salon • May 26, 2025

Dawn found me helping Abu and Seth disentangle nets in a stretch full of submerged trees.

From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo