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unravel

[uhn-rav-uhl] / ʌnˈræv əl /




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The Penningtons are a married pair of professors whose lives will unravel after Dava’s diagnosis with cognitive decline.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

Very quickly, things started to unravel in what would be a seven-year struggle to keep the business afloat.

From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026

Once you start pulling on this thread, the whole thing starts to unravel.

From Salon ● Aug. 30, 2026

See: This is the critical detail that could unravel the AI trade: Nobody is paying for it.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 25, 2026

Mama Ya-Ya stands in front of the TV, trying to unravel what the picture means.

From "Ninth Ward" by Jewell Parker Rhodes

The 24-time major winner, now 39, physically unravels in a stunning first-round loss.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026

A failed breakout of that nature, especially one that unravels quickly, would be a meaningful bearish signal.

From Barron's ● Feb. 12, 2026

She played the obsessive and troubled woman, Martha, who dramatically unravels onscreen.

From BBC ● Dec. 23, 2025

There is no chorus in Icke’s version, but the sentiment holds, as Oedipus unravels the puzzle of his identity with the same relentlessness that has brought him to the brink of electoral triumph.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 13, 2025

After that, what little sense of order there was unravels.

From "Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins

“Higher yields have unraveled some of the diversification that we saw this summer,” she added.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 14, 2026

A decade of ambition that had initially pushed the West Coast Power Five league to the forefront of college sports had unraveled in a blizzard of criticism.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

The situation unraveled just as Paul was poised to make her debut as the heroine of the 22nd season of “The Bachelorette.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

A brief Treasury market rally that followed Warsh’s first press conference at the Fed’s helm in June also unraveled.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 26, 2026

Maybe there was something here, some strange mystery waiting to be unraveled.

From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng

It was the worst attack by the Houthis since a four-year truce in Yemen's long-running civil war unravelled in July.

From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026

In 2025, the Australian for a large part of the year appeared on course for a first world title, until his season unravelled somewhat in the final third.

From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026

On it, smart cameras installed around his home relayed images of his house, now under clear blue skies, with the hosepipe in the yard unravelled where he left it.

From Barron's ● Jul. 27, 2026

Griffiths' lies unravelled when he agreed to buy a £650,000 house in Llantwit Major in the Vale of Glamorgan in order to be closer to his place of work.

From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2026

Things that I had done but forgot came to life as she unravelled my past; some of these things nobody but myself knew.

From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane

Wall Street is betting on Fed Chair Kevin Warsh to keep a manic bond market from unraveling.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 4, 2026

There was the unraveling: a July report that passages of his thesis matched another scholar’s, an investigation, his resignation and, nine days later, his death.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026

But it now appears reports of the axis’ unraveling are exaggerated.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026

Plus, Spain regains control of Ceuta after migrants overrun it, and we go inside the unraveling of Situational Awareness.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 2, 2026

That left her nothing to do but watch in amazement and horror as Arachne worked, her eight legs moving with hypnotic speed, slowly unraveling the silk strands around the statue.

From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan

The pause follows nearly two weeks of daily US strikes and tit-for-tat attacks, effectively unravelling the ceasefire struck in June.

From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2026

"I believe that it is highly unlikely that a statutory inquiry would be able to make further progress on unravelling the technical aspects of the programme failure," he said.

From BBC ● May 14, 2026

"No adversary should mistake our current restraint with a lack of resolve," General Dan Caine told reporters, amid fears the current US-Iranian ceasefire is unravelling.

From Barron's ● May 5, 2026

Does Prada want to coddle you in an unravelling world?

From Barron's ● Feb. 26, 2026

‘Well, what have you done?’ said Frodo, getting impatient with the slow unravelling of Butterbur’s thoughts.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien




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