disentangle
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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
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
"To disentangle the relative roles of innovation and environmental change, we need further analyses of trait-dependent diversification, fossil-informed timelines and performance tests that link true crabs' sideways movement to adaptive advantages," Kawabata adds.
From Science Daily ● May 2, 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
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
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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
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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
Veterinarians then assessed whether Meatloaf could be safely disentangled in the water or needed to be brought in for further care, Jaros said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 9, 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
Lauren Krasnoff, president of the Florida Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers’ Miami chapter, said Fortson’s race cannot be disentangled from discussion of the case when invoking the castle doctrine and Stand Your Ground.
From Seattle Times ● May 15, 2024
He disentangled himself from the blonde woman and came to stand between the twins and the woman’s daughters.
From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall
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It’s uncanny, Mr. Pettman claims, because the uncertainty about presence, in the digital age, is linked to our anxieties about death: the final disentangling of our informational and physical selves.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2025
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
On-the-ground workers fighting plastic pollution by disentangling seals estimated to Salon that roughly 70 percent of the debris they encounter is in some way linked to commercial fishing.
From Salon ● Jan. 29, 2024
It wrapped her up in a fragrant cloud that seemed to carry her into the kitchen, disentangling her cares and worries on the way.
From "Shadowshaper" by Daniel José Older
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