unweave

Now that narrative is starting to unweave itself.

From Salon ● Jan. 14, 2025

“This is an opportunity for Seattle to be truly progressive, to unpack and unweave those racist and biased practices embedded in all institutions of power,” said Chelsea Hendrickson, Northern Arapaho and Cupiq.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 9, 2019

To unweave the plot before your eyes would require several assistants from the circulation department and a committee of subscribers to appear and certify that the narrative implements are without trickery.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Well, I now go out alone to try and unweave the web of difficulty."

From A Heart-Song of To-day by Savigny, Annie Gregg

Yes, dear mamma, I am glad you are going with us instead of staying at home to weave and unweave webs. 

From A Modern Telemachus by Yonge, Charlotte Mary

Mesh by knotted mesh, it’s a net we have woven, perversely, by unweaving the web of life.

From New York Times ● May 2, 2020

The book achieves a state of suspension that is at once fascinating, draining, and dismal—one imagines oneself, along with the narrator, vacillating forever, doubting, arguing both sides, weaving and unweaving webs of justification and delusion.

From The New Yorker ● Apr. 30, 2019

Laertes, the father of Odysseus, was too old to help, and Penelope only gained time by her famous device of weaving and unweaving the web.

From The Odyssey Done into English prose by Lang, Andrew

When death called him from his labor the great philosopher was busy at his desk, "combing, and curling, and weaving, and unweaving his writings after a variety of fashions."

From Methods of Authors by Erichsen, Hugo

Let a planet be wheeling with heavenly science, upon arches of divine geometry: suddenly, to us, it shall appear unaccountably retrograde; flying when none pursues; and unweaving its own work.

From Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 1 by De Quincey, Thomas

So every day I wove on the great loom, but every night by torchlight I unwove it; and so for three years I deceived the Akhaians.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer

So every day she wove on the great loom— but every night by torchlight she unwove it; and so for three years she deceived the Akhaians.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer

So every day she wove on the great loom— but every night by torchlight she unwove it, and so for three years she deceived the Akhaians.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer

But it never was, inasmuch as Penelope unwove each night what she had woven during the day.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton

It was a complicated matter at first, but they soon learned how, and wove and unwove the ribbons many times without getting tangled once.

From Marjorie's Maytime by Wells, Carolyn

His first iteration of the project was almost a memoir, but as he kept reading, he found more material that had been largely untouched — or at least unwoven into a sweeping history.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 9, 2023

There are other riddles to be unwoven, including with just how the document got to England.

From New York Times ● Apr. 21, 2017

When the labyrinth is unwoven we're not surprised that "the plan of the library reproduces the map of the world."

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 20, 2016

Very many familiar figures have created this "unwoven" braid, with Blake and Keats at their head.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 10, 2012

The honeysuckle vines emerged in long stringers, unwoven from the mass.

From "Homecoming" by Cynthia Voigt