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
He told the judge it would be impossible to untangle the two companies if they are allowed to combine.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 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
Nothing could get to him, not even Birdie, who always seemed to be able to untangle the words that he struggled to find.
From "Far from the Tree" by Robin Benway
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
Like a particularly sharp country song, it takes cliches and untangles and renews them.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 7, 2023
Celia washes her daughter’s hair over the kitchen sink then untangles it with a broken comb.
From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García
Unlike in three dimensions, those paths cannot simply be untangled afterward.
From Science Daily ● May 9, 2026
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
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
They looked straight ahead while I untangled them.
From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen
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 new study introduces a genome-wide approach for untangling these complex genetic histories.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 19, 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
Her best friend, untangling herself in the back of the plane, shivered with dread and love.
From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein
