untangle
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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
To untangle these possibilities, we need much larger comparative datasets of lesions in wild primates, only then can we begin to trace broader patterns and refine our interpretations of the fossil record.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 8, 2026
My hands tremble a little as I untangle the ancient lights from one another.
From "How to Disappear Completely" by Ali Standish
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
Her eyes have been replaced by storm clouds, and she untangles her limbs from mine.
From "The Sun Is Also a Star" by Nicola Yoon
Unlike in three dimensions, those paths cannot simply be untangled afterward.
From Science Daily ● May 9, 2026
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
“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
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
Clearing possible mines, repairing infrastructure and untangling maritime logistics will push the resumption of normal shipping traffic back by at least two to three months, the IEA said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 2026
Thomas is still untangling the frightening mirage that was the past four months of his life, but he says his most dangerous delusions were abetted by the most sycophantic version of ChatGPT: GPT-4.
From Slate ● Feb. 2, 2026
Sunday afternoons he squatted on the aft deck of his boat, silently and methodically untangling his gill net or knitting its flaws up patiently.
From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson
