as in to liberate
to set free from entanglement or difficulty
you've woven such a web of lies that it's hard to see how you can extricate yourself now
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Recent Examples of extricate
He was extricated from his car and flown to Froedtert Hospital by Flight for Life.
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Claudia Levens, jsonline.com, 4 Oct. 2025
Sam, Jay and the ghosts attempt to extricate Jay from his deal with Elias Woodstone (Matt Walsh), the devil.
—Jessica Radloff, Glamour, 1 Oct. 2025
Emergency crews extricated the man from the truck and transported him to a hospital.
—George Avalos, Mercury News, 29 Sep. 2025
Vargas was trapped and had to be extricated by first responders.
—Susan Gill Vardon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Sep. 2025
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Hudson, for her part, felt liberated.—
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Russia’s president has claimed that his invasion of Ukraine was a mission to liberate the people of that country.—
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Pots, pans, trays, and lots of utensils can be shoved onto oven shelves to free up counter and kitchen table space.—
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The engine, freed from its hook by a sudden hard, precise kick, quickly sank into the river, pulling the cord tight and dragging the foreman underwater.—
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Keeping Tabs on Car and Insurance-Related Documents Good documentation helps save time and stress during claims or disputes.—
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After first responders tried to save her at the scene, she was taken to Hennepin Healthcare and pronounced dead.—
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NBCUniversal’s Peacock is still making losses, and Apple TV’s economics are impossible to disentangle from its trillion-dollar parent company’s, but nevertheless the year in general will go down as a milestone.—
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The models disentangle the information related to representing a person’s identity from the information about motion so that the same motion can be mapped to different identities, or the same identity can have multiple types of motions.—
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This indicates that sustained remote presence can help prevent students from disengaging entirely from school.—
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The father disengaged from the physical altercation with his son and retreated behind the uniformed police officers.—
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No minimum to redeem for cash back.—
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Here’s how to claim your lottery prize All Arizona Lottery retailers will redeem prizes up to $100 and may redeem winnings up to $599.—
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The Los Angeles County Fire Department on Wednesday rescued three people who were trapped under a collapsed retaining wall in Lennox.—
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In the final battle, the group of heroes kills Vecna, and the Mind Flayer, before rescuing the children and setting off bombs that destroy the Upside Down.—
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The emotional Moon forms a flowing trine with Chiron, energizing your 11th House of Networks and untangling the complexities of group efforts.—
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Sondheim got to work at eight o’clock one night, devising a version of the murder game in which all the players would have to use their wits to untangle the mystery.—
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“Extricate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/extricate. Accessed 12 Jan. 2026.
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