unravel
Example Sentences
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The victory leaves Miami just one win away from completing a remarkable transformation after a season that appeared to be unraveling in disarray earlier in the campaign following after a string of defeats.
From Barron's
However long it takes to unravel your current life, you have methodically gone through the necessary steps to arrive at an informed decision about your future retirement destination abroad.
From MarketWatch
Budgets can unravel spectacularly, fall apart before your eyes.
From BBC
If generations of diplomats viewed the post-Soviet challenges of Eastern Europe as a Gordian knot to be painstakingly unraveled, the president envisioned an easy fix: The borders matter less than the business.
But that no longer seemed the case Saturday, as USC unraveled on special teams, putting its offense in too deep of a hole to climb out of.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
