disentangle

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"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

But questions have also been raised about whether they can disentangle themselves from their parents' mess.

From BBC • Oct. 31, 2025

Policymakers are trying to disentangle whether a slowdown in monthly job gains reflects fewer people entering the country and seeking jobs or, instead, a drop in demand for workers.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 29, 2025

“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

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