untangle
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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
Our collective lives are like a tapestry of the adorable and the dreadful thrown together, and there’s no way to untangle the two.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 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
No need to untangle the complex hypocrisy here — it’s all laid out in arrows and diagrams.
From Salon ● Jul. 4, 2026
It was hard to untangle the threads of why someone acted the way they did.
From "Caterpillar Summer" by Gillian McDunn
Shapiro dexterously untangles the Gordian knot of their entwined passions, shared ambitions and business bottom lines.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 11, 2025
"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
She floats down, like crystal light, and untangles me from the branch.
From "Ninth Ward" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
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
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
He was swinging upside down off the starboard rail, using his massive strength and his flexible feet to hang on while he untangled some broken oars.
From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan
Taking a stand will involve you untangling years of conditioning.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 27, 2026
A new study introduces a genome-wide approach for untangling these complex genetic histories.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 19, 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
It was in that office where I began untangling some of my own history, much of which would later appear in my first book.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 16, 2026
In the sway of a sudden reverie among the furrows or while untangling the mysteries of an early-morning dream.
From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead
