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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

The guest list is a useful reminder of how difficult it has been to untangle the world’s two largest economies.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 21, 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

Over the years, over the course of her life, she would try repeatedly to untangle these threads, and find each time that they were hopelessly intertwined.

From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng

"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

Like a particularly sharp country song, it takes cliches and untangles and renews them.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 7, 2023

Rubenhold untangles the myths of history-making and writes with great empathy about the hardships the women endured when alive and the rampant misogyny they faced when dead.

From New York Times ● Oct. 12, 2022

Mom untangles Abuela’s hair with a wide-toothed comb.

From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García

When Emanuel fell ill in 1988, Emanuel’s son Jim and Jim’s wife Trudy stepped in, untangled the tax mess, and guided the company out of bankruptcy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 9, 2026

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

Reading a Roman play call that’s so long that it requires quarterbacks to wear wristbands doesn’t seem that difficult after he’s untangled differential equations.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2024

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

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 4, 2024

He untangled his arms from the bike he’d pulled into the car and grabbed for the door handle.

From "The School for Whatnots" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

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

From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2026

Jenée Desmond-Harris offers advice on untangling this knotty disagreement.

From Slate ● Jul. 21, 2026

Taking a stand will involve you untangling years of conditioning.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 27, 2026

A big piece of Rose’s reorganization plan involves untangling WPP’s unwieldy operating structure, the result of a decadeslong shopping spree in which founder Martin Sorrell bought hundreds of agencies globally.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 2026

I follow her, take the knotted pile of lights on the ground, and start untangling them.

From "How to Disappear Completely" by Ali Standish