disentangle

Example Sentences

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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

That coincided with rising industrialisation, when burning of fossil fuels, particularly coal, began to heat up our atmosphere, but it's hard to disentangle natural and human causes that far back in time.

From BBC • Oct. 4, 2025

Within a short span, the Sheriff’s Department contacted Othram, a Texas-based forensic laboratory that specializes in genome sequencing that helps disentangle cold cases.

From Los Angeles Times • May 10, 2025

Jutta moves through the world somewhere, watching shadows disentangle themselves from night, watching miners limp past in the dawn.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr