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ravel

verb as in come apart; unwind

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Ravel and Schons also told VOSD that the formal agreement between Hughes and the city’s landlord seems to bolster the conflict-of-interest allegations.

Ravel said Hughes’ agreement to help cover costs should the deal go south were particularly troubling.

“I just don’t think you can say that there’s a clear legal standard here,” Ravel said.

So I started off with two influences: Ravel, directly, and also Bill Evans.

I associate Ravel with your music from the beginning of your career.

It was obvious to me that Bill Evans was influenced by Ravel, too.

At most, the piece underlines a common notion of Ravel as predicting later, more strenuously modern music.

What you hear could be Ravel reworking his own thoughts on music, if he'd lived into the 1960s.

Andrew Harben began to wonder where it would end and what he would do when he had no more pants to ravel.

No, that's true; for you shall have one woman knit more in an hour, than any man can ravel again in seven-and-twenty years.

Mark all notches with basting thread, tailor's chalk, or notch the goods if it does not ravel.

The marking thread should be through every stitch so that they cannot ravel.

They ravel more, still less resolved: they become more confused, and ever less disentangled.

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On this page you'll find 35 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to ravel, such as: disentangle, free, loosen, unbraid, unravel, and unsnarl.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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