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From MarketWatch ● Aug. 25, 2026

It was ultimately the death of another legendary rapper that helped unravel Tupac's shooting death.

From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026

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

The fallout continued to unravel until just a few hours before the match, when FIFA’s Disciplinary Committee released another statement pushing back on the criticism.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026

And then, barely a week later, a single rogue agent pulled a thread that threatened to unravel Stalin's carefully woven net.

From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau

Those positions give the countries bargain power, especially as farmers have already been hit by last year’s tariffs, losing share to Brazil that could gain even more share if the pact unravels.

From Barron's ● Jun. 29, 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

She played the obsessive and troubled woman, Martha, who dramatically unravels onscreen.

From BBC ● Dec. 23, 2025

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

She swipes her fingers across her eyes, and my brain just unravels.

From "Leah on the Offbeat" by Becky Albertalli

The discussions, however, unraveled after Pernod and Brown-Forman couldn’t agree on a price or how to divide representation on the combined company’s board, according to people familiar with the discussions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026

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 attack quickly unraveled when Mangubat revealed she was engaged and actively planning her wedding.

From Salon ● May 30, 2026

History consists for the most part of a complex bundle of deeply interwoven threads, social, cultural and economic forces that are not easily unraveled.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

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

Griffiths' lies unravelled when he agreed to buy a £650,000 house in Llantwit Major in the Vale of Glamorgan in order to be closer to his place of work.

From BBC ● Jul. 15, 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

There was the unraveling: a July report that passages of his thesis matched another scholar’s, an investigation, his resignation and, nine days later, his death.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026

The unraveling of Dr. Phil’s media venture was a blow to the celebrity therapist who built a reputation as one of the most trusted voices on television.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026

But it now appears reports of the axis’ unraveling are exaggerated.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 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

The linguist Mark Liberman calls them misnegations, and points out that “they’re easy to fail to miss”: After a couple of days in Surry County, I found myself no less closer to unraveling the riddle.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

The question many have asked around Infantino's plan is tied into a separate - but critical - aspect of the fundamental reasons behind this week unravelling.

From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2026

But a penalty for speeding in the pit lane led to his race unravelling.

From BBC ● Jun. 7, 2026

The actress also points to the mythological figures known as The Fates or Moirai, who appear throughout the series and become increasingly central to Zoe's emotional unravelling.

From BBC ● May 16, 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

I come to ask for counsel and the unravelling of hard words.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien