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After managing to untangle him, Lee said it was a struggle to get him back to the surface as he was "much bigger than me".

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026

Letsch, the elder-law attorney in Iowa, said she often hears from families trying to untangle messes with farms because they’ve been given bad advice.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 25, 2026

Attribution science seeks to untangle how much human-caused climate change shaped a specific heat wave, storm or flood, and its findings now shape litigation and policy.

From Barron's ● Jul. 15, 2026

But something in there was broken, which a senior engineer already behind on a deadline had to untangle, while Robin struggled to explain.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 12, 2026

I gritted my teeth to keep from saying something else stupid and stopped moving so the poor technician could attempt to untangle the mess I’d made.

From "Glitch" by Laura Martin

"This work untangles some of the secrets and shows how N-terminal acetylation shape individual protein fate," Thomas Arnesen concludes.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 27, 2023

"It is hard for the government to shore up economic growth unless it untangles the complex knot of weak confidence," said Gary Ng, senior economist at Natixis Corporate and Investment Bank.

From Reuters ● Jul. 31, 2023

The novel tells the story of a Texas-born working man unwittingly becoming a detective as he untangles a mystery that takes him to L.A.’s Black, white and Latino neighborhoods.

From New York Times ● May 17, 2023

“I did my very best to play the truth,” she said by the end of the profile, which untangles the messy saga of the fashion family Reggiani married into.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2021

Ms. Blinny untangles a headset and puts it on.

From "The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle" by Leslie Connor

Ultimately, Zoom founder Eric Yuan and his team untangled many obstacles that blocked smooth, cheap videoconferencing, launching early versions of their service in 2012.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 15, 2025

In a sense, then, the alliance is held together by complex supply chains and contractual agreements that could not possibly be untangled overnight.

From BBC ● Mar. 5, 2025

Pospisil landed on top of him, the players untangled themselves and play continued without a penalty call.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 4, 2024

"We haven't yet untangled whether these changes are reflective of brain pathology or whether they precipitate the disease."

From Science Daily ● Feb. 9, 2024

“We’re terribly sorry,” said Milo meekly, when he’d untangled himself, “but you looked just like part of the mountain.”

From "The Phantom Tollbooth" by Norton Juster

Therefore, it is up to us to do the internal work of untangling these contradictions.

From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2026

The novel follows Susan, a queer creative untangling the coulda, woulda, shoulda situationship that has spanned decades, while grappling with the reality of a career that dips and shifts in a changing media landscape.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 2026

Taking a stand will involve you untangling years of conditioning.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 27, 2026

A great interview for your evening dog walk: Anna Konkle had a difficult childhood, one that she’s still untangling.

From Slate ● Jun. 23, 2026

She couldn’t shake the feeling that untangling the truth around what had happened to Clara was important.

From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland