disentangle
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That’s because the bubble’s promoters are promising that they can replace labor, so you can’t disentangle those two.
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
“I thought this belonged to that bloke Perkins at the Ministry?” he asked, starting to disentangle the tent pegs.
From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling
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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
“I agree that before we implement any sweeping limits on youth’s access to social media, we need to have more conclusive evidence that disentangles adolescent use from all other age groups.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 13, 2023
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
But Abby disentangles from Nick and walks toward me.
From "Leah on the Offbeat" by Becky Albertalli
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This means there are two separate reasons race and politics cannot be disentangled, only one of which depends on history.
From Slate ● May 22, 2026
Start with the claim that the tumor-shrinking effects of RP1 could not be disentangled from that of another immunotherapy that patients were taking concurrently.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 14, 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
I hugged her back, then quickly disentangled myself.
From Each Little Bird That Sings by Deborah Wiles
China’s leaders have determined that disentangling the two economies—often called “decoupling” or “derisking”—is inevitable.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 5, 2026
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
Recently, I led an international team of biologists and archaeologists in disentangling the mysteries of how this transformation happens.
From Salon ● Dec. 30, 2023
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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