untangle

After managing to untangle him, Lee said it was a struggle to get him back to the surface as he was "much bigger than me".

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026

The guest list is a useful reminder of how difficult it has been to untangle the world’s two largest economies.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 21, 2026

Our collective lives are like a tapestry of the adorable and the dreadful thrown together, and there’s no way to untangle the two.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026

Attribution science seeks to untangle how much human-caused climate change shaped a specific heat wave, storm or flood, and its findings now shape litigation and policy.

From Barron's ● Jul. 15, 2026

He picked up his pencil and began to try to untangle an equation with unknown x’s and unnamed y’s.

From "Tiger Boy" by Mitali Perkins

Dowling, author of a previous biography of Shepard’s idol Eugene O’Neill, expertly untangles the history of a man who contained multitudes — “country boy, playwright, lover, rocker, husband, father.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2025

"This work untangles some of the secrets and shows how N-terminal acetylation shape individual protein fate," Thomas Arnesen concludes.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 27, 2023

"It is hard for the government to shore up economic growth unless it untangles the complex knot of weak confidence," said Gary Ng, senior economist at Natixis Corporate and Investment Bank.

From Reuters ● Jul. 31, 2023

Like a particularly sharp country song, it takes cliches and untangles and renews them.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 7, 2023

Someone starts a slow clap, and Abby untangles our hands to join in.

From "Leah on the Offbeat" by Becky Albertalli

“That innocuous little essay untangled some aching knot inside me,” she writes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

In a sense, then, the alliance is held together by complex supply chains and contractual agreements that could not possibly be untangled overnight.

From BBC ● Mar. 5, 2025

Reading a Roman play call that’s so long that it requires quarterbacks to wear wristbands doesn’t seem that difficult after he’s untangled differential equations.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2024

Pospisil landed on top of him, the players untangled themselves and play continued without a penalty call.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 4, 2024

I untangled Liam’s arms from the gray seat belt and half pushed, half rolled him off the driver’s seat.

From "The Darkest Minds" by Alexandra Bracken

Therefore, it is up to us to do the internal work of untangling these contradictions.

From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2026

Jenée Desmond-Harris offers advice on untangling this knotty disagreement.

From Slate ● Jul. 21, 2026

The novel follows Susan, a queer creative untangling the coulda, woulda, shoulda situationship that has spanned decades, while grappling with the reality of a career that dips and shifts in a changing media landscape.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 2026

Taking a stand will involve you untangling years of conditioning.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 27, 2026

The simulation technician rushed forward, all fluttery hands and big worried eyes as he tried untangling me from the costly machinery before my temper could do any real damage.

From "Glitch" by Laura Martin