disentangle

Example Sentences

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He also knows that the system needs to do a far better job of protecting the many women trying to disentangle their lives from lethally abusive men who have no interest in changing.

From Los Angeles Times

"This makes it difficult to disentangle the impact of the protocol from other factors."

From BBC

While the exact cause is difficult to “disentangle,” Densley said there’s no question that mass shootings have increased recently, with 7 of the 10 deadliest shootings having occurred in the past decade.

From Los Angeles Times

Officers resumed their effort after working into the night to bring down activists from the roof of an abandoned farm warehouse in Luetzerath and disentangle another from the remains of a car.

From Seattle Times

But when authentic legal advice was rendered, Mr. Levin said, disentangling a communication’s competing purposes and deciding which was the primary one was “an inherently impossible exercise.”

From New York Times