disentangle
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However, Mihnea Cuibus, a senior researcher at the University of Oxford University's Migration Observatory, says it is "impossible" to disentangle the effects of government policy and other factors on small boat arrivals.
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026
To disentangle herself from Wagoner, she had to pay a seven figure legal settlement.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 2026
That’s because the bubble’s promoters are promising that they can replace labor, so you can’t disentangle those two.
From Salon ● Jun. 22, 2026
"I was talking with other students who believe this technology can be used in swarm robotics -- where small robots can entangle, do a task and then disentangle when they are done," said Pezeshki.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 15, 2026
Jutta moves through the world somewhere, watching shadows disentangle themselves from night, watching miners limp past in the dawn.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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The researchers found it in much the same way that one disentangles a knot, by pulling on individual threads to see where they lead.
From Salon ● Apr. 6, 2024
Kadelka and undergraduate student researchers recently published a study that disentangles the common design principles in these mathematical models for gene regulatory networks.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 23, 2024
A new study published today disentangles this link in mice, showing that speeding up a mouse’s heart rate made otherwise calm animals act more anxious.
From Science Magazine ● Feb. 28, 2023
"Anyone who disentangles a whale would say that it's the best thing they've ever done," she says.
From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2022
But Abby disentangles from Nick and walks toward me.
From "Leah on the Offbeat" by Becky Albertalli
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He was a brilliant, compelling and tricky fellow, a novelist and political philosopher who disentangled himself from early communism and became culture minister to Charles de Gaulle in the 1960s.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
We will now learn whether Sir Keir's decision-making can really be disentangled from McSweeney's in this way.
From BBC ● Feb. 10, 2026
While Figgis’ documentary doesn’t dwell on the problem, “Megadoc” does arguably end up suffering because that ethical knot is never fully disentangled.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2025
Lauren Krasnoff, president of the Florida Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers’ Miami chapter, said Fortson’s race cannot be disentangled from discussion of the case when invoking the castle doctrine and Stand Your Ground.
From Seattle Times ● May 15, 2024
“I’ve got the book,” he said as they disentangled themselves.
From "1984" by George Orwell
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Any attempt to undo the acquisition would mean disentangling the two.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 28, 2026
Data from the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation show transfers of state prison inmates to ICE custody have trended down since California began disentangling local and federal law enforcement.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 3, 2025
But disentangling this chicken-egg arrangement must start somewhere.
From Slate ● Oct. 20, 2024
Armed with the diaries, Saul, who lives in north London, began disentangling fact from fiction for a six-part podcast series, Devil in the Wilderness, for which he also composed the soundtrack.
From BBC ● Mar. 23, 2024
Another has been the problem of disentangling cause and effect in the rise of food production.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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