unravel
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Gen. Rob Bonta leads a coalition of state attorneys general who are battling to try to unravel the mammoth deal.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
Writing about both Samsung and SK Hynix in a note to clients Wednesday, Gavekal Research analyst Udith Sikand said it’s premature to claim the semiconductor boom’s fundamentals are starting to unravel.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 30, 2026
The second order, on post-quantum cryptography, addresses a looming vulnerability: the rise of quantum computers powerful enough to unravel the public-key cryptography underpinning secure web browsing and blockchain networks.
From Barron's ● Jun. 22, 2026
Walsh tried to unravel his defence, at one stage focusing heavily on the meeting with Complainant B in the late 1990s.
From BBC ● Jun. 22, 2026
That she’ll eventually unravel the truth from all the lies Dr.
From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy
The pressure is truly on with five games remaining as the campaign unravels at a crucial juncture.
From BBC ● Apr. 18, 2026
Through some inventive structures and a playful rewiring of romantic tropes going back to Homer, Groff stitches together a portrait of a marriage that she then carefully unravels.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 26, 2026
A failed breakout of that nature, especially one that unravels quickly, would be a meaningful bearish signal.
From Barron's ● Feb. 12, 2026
We wander back wet, down to Castillo Square, down to the ghosts of Bar Milano, a stand-in for Bar Torino, and Café Suizo, where the fiesta unravels in insults, a love polygon and fisticuffs.
From Salon ● Nov. 8, 2025
And I could picture her again: she unravels the carpet halfway each night so her hip isn’t against bare concrete as she lies on her side.
From "Paper Towns" by John Green
A brief Treasury-market rally that followed Warsh’s first press conference at the Fed’s helm in June also unraveled.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 26, 2026
In Aviv’s view, Munro’s work accumulated power even as her family unraveled and her own unheroic passivity was exposed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026
The opposition leader’s plan to return home after devastating earthquakes unraveled in midflight.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 5, 2026
The attack quickly unraveled when Mangubat revealed she was engaged and actively planning her wedding.
From Salon ● May 30, 2026
I often unraveled my hair and wore it loose.
From "The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan
A lot has happened since head coach Danny Rohl, who has been replaced by Derek McInnes, watched his team limp to the finish after their season unravelled in a post-split collapse.
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026
On it, smart cameras installed around his home relayed images of his house, now under clear blue skies, with the hosepipe in the yard unravelled where he left it.
From Barron's ● Jul. 27, 2026
His comments come as a preliminary deal made in mid-June to stop fighting has unravelled, with negotiations for a permanent peace making little progress after Trump declared the agreement was "over" on 8 July.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
Kimi Antonelli's hopes of victory at the British Grand Prix unravelled when the front left wheel shield failed and then became lodged in the wheel.
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026
Even so, I kept worrying that one of the strings would come unravelled and a single balloon would sail off up into that cloudy sky.
From "Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro
On the ChatGPT timeline, nearly the same point coincides with Situational Awareness’s unraveling.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 31, 2026
The unraveling of the Situational Awareness hedge fund has inspired comparisons with Long-Term Capital Management, a legendary hedge fund that failed in spectacular fashion in 1998.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 31, 2026
They were the starkest sign yet that efforts to clinch a permanent peace agreement are unraveling.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026
The problem began when we unbundled, canceling our landline, which was like pulling the last thread that kept our lives from unraveling.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026
Now he was sure that there was a grave misunderstanding taking place, and that unraveling it, disproving it, was going to take days.
From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers
"I believe that it is highly unlikely that a statutory inquiry would be able to make further progress on unravelling the technical aspects of the programme failure," he said.
From BBC ● May 14, 2026
"No adversary should mistake our current restraint with a lack of resolve," General Dan Caine told reporters, amid fears the current US-Iranian ceasefire is unravelling.
From Barron's ● May 5, 2026
Dogged by injuries, she has made more appearances off the bench in the past three years than she has started games, with her time at City unravelling before her switch to Arsenal in January 2025.
From BBC ● Apr. 25, 2026
"Our home honestly felt like it was unravelling," he says.
From BBC ● Mar. 27, 2026
Only so much could be done about her hair without shea butter and a good comb, but she at least tried to redo some of the unravelling twists.
From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray
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