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as in unraveled
to separate the various strands of
gently untangled the baby's hair
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2
as in freed
to set free from entanglement or difficulty
I was finally able to untangle myself from my credit problems
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Recent Examples of untangled
North Crowley fell on it first, but when the pile was untangled, Allen tight end Jackson Hoppe had it.
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Cody Thorn, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 5 Dec. 2025
Each is a kind of performance, Blue Cowboy implies, that can be untangled and revealed as a fiction but also contains something beautiful in its sustained gesture.
—Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 6 Nov. 2025
Each salmon must be untangled from the net one by one.
—Andrew Watman, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
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Yet, the season unraveled in 2025, due largely to injuries.—
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But their plans to get back home have completely unraveled.—
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Jorge Rodríguez, recently ratified as leader of the national parliament, avoided referring to those being freed as political prisoners and said that the releases were taking place simultaneously to his announcement, made at noon on Thursday.—
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Following the announcement by Rodríguez, the Spanish Foreign Ministry confirmed that five Spaniards – one of whom has dual citizenship – had been freed and were flying back to Spain.—
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No Spotify or Netflix exists for literature, where (other than with some exceptions, such as for vinyl collectors) the medium and the message are more easily disentangled, but the codex has endured for two millennia whereas the CD and the DVD lasted barely two decades.—
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Her mother, Lyons, believes that vaccination may have been what saved her life.—
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His experiments are saved by Henrich Harlander (Christoph Waltz), a wealthy benefactor who funds Victor's work.—
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One woman suffered serious injuries and had to be extricated after being pinned inside the wreckage.—
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Brown watched as the man was extricated from the car and taken — alive — to the hospital.—
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Hudson, for her part, felt liberated.—
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Schloss and her mother Fritzi survived until the camp was liberated by Soviet troops in 1945.—
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“Untangled.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/untangled. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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