untangle
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No need to untangle the complex hypocrisy here — it’s all laid out in arrows and diagrams.
From Salon ● Jul. 4, 2026
Mercifully, Aviv has bravely attempted to untangle the mother-daughter dynamic and bring it into the light.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 12, 2026
The authors found that early squamate evolution involved a great deal of anatomical experimentation and convergent evolution, which helps explain why the earliest snake story has been so difficult to untangle from fossils alone.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 24, 2026
He loved the New Orleans Saints, playing the clarinet and thrift shopping, but could also untangle thorny math equations in minutes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 23, 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
The Oscar, Tony and Emmy winner’s memoir untangles the story she constructed along the path to fame from the real one, a more difficult but ultimately more fulfilling narrative of struggle and success.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 31, 2022
Momma lets me hug her for a minute, and then she untangles my arms from around her waist.
From "A Good Kind of Trouble" by Lisa Moore Ramée
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
“The chicken or egg on how those things get untangled, and momentum shifted a different way, is a much bigger question,” Friedman continued.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 16, 2025
Pospisil landed on top of him, the players untangled themselves and play continued without a penalty call.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 4, 2024
Red, yellow, blue, green, they untangled toward the pier, slowly at first, one revolution every ten seconds, then faster and faster as the boat picked up speed.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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 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
Then my uncle was untangling me from the mess of screaming boy and spinning wheels.
From "Harbor Me" by Jacqueline Woodson
