unraveling

When the spruce was still horizontal early in the process, one of the workers who was unraveling the branches spotted the creature buried in the base of the tree, Kalish said.

If we study 1,640-meter-long Bennu and other asteroids like it in deep detail, we can potentially unravel how the ingredients that lead to the formation of planets like Earth—and, eventually, life—come together.

The results here could help unravel the neural processes behind replay that explain why some of our memories degrade, whereas others last a lifetime.

While they can certainly expect Republicans to claim foul, if Democrats can pass popular changes while in power, it may be hard for conservatives to justify unraveling them over time.

She’s also departing as the city continues to unravel a major budget crunch tied to the coronavirus pandemic.

His sanity is slowly unraveling, like the claustrophobic narrator of The Tell-Tale Heart.

The short version is that political, cultural, and even economic power has been decentralizing and unraveling for a long time.

It is not surprising that these images should be showing up during a time of unraveling of job security.

Both Eternal Sunshine and Mood Indigo concern a relationship unraveling.

The official Malaysian account of the last contacts made to and received by Flight MH370 is unraveling.

To prevent the burlap from unraveling, turn the edges under before tacking them down.

Do we not merely see that it is so, and turn aside from the great mystery in despair of ever unraveling it?

Piece-dyed fabrics may be distinguished from yarn-dyed fabrics by unraveling threads of each kind.

It flashed upon young Preston that the keen-witted youth was unraveling the plan he had held in mind from the first.

Or, perhaps, we begin to ponder still deeper, we feel the necessity of "unraveling life's beginning."