unknot
Example Sentences
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“What do you appreciate? Maybe the smooth, green leaves on a house plant or the comfort of a pillow get your shoulders unknotting.”
From New York Times
It is tempting, in hindsight, to wonder if his scholarship wasn’t a trail of bread crumbs — one long, unconscious attempt to unknot the riddle of his vexed self.
From New York Times
Her clear prose unknots a dense tangle of academic concepts along the way.
From New York Times
Making things knotty, then knottier, and finally unknotting them, is an innate human urge, designed to delight but also to train the mind.
From New York Times
Paul answered with consecutive 3-pointers to knot it again, and he later unknotted it for good.
From Washington Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.