disentangle

Example Sentences

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But for many people, it is difficult to disentangle the royal family from British identity.

From New York Times

In a region where as many as 80 percent of White voters support Republicans and about 90 percent of Black voters support Democrats, it is often difficult to disentangle issues of partisanship and race.

From Washington Post

Instead, Super Heavy and Starship were unable to disentangle themselves.

From Scientific American

Though it is hard to disentangle correlation and causation, education studies repeatedly found lower test scores for Americans who watched more television than others.

From Salon

In another sense, though, Trump’s brashness is difficult to disentangle from the sneering, aggressive approach adopted by some judges on the right — which the abrasive Dobbs majority opinion, written by Justice Samuel Alito, exemplified.

From Washington Post