unravel
Example Sentences
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The risk is in how quickly it could unravel.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 8, 2026
It was trying to unravel years of sacrifice that the couple had made since immigrating to the United States from El Salvador.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 7, 2026
It all began to unravel for Greensill when an insurance policy that kept the business humming expired in early 2021.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 4, 2026
McLaren's race began to unravel even before the action got under way.
From BBC • May 24, 2026
And it is a history of the paradoxes posed by an innocent-looking number, rattling even this century’s brightest minds and threatening to unravel the whole framework of scientific thought.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
Vocabulary lists containing unravel
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