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
"It's hard to disentangle but it is not hard to disentangle when it's market reaction to an announcement."
From BBC • Jan. 16, 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
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
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