disentangle

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"Investigating such rare familial clusters offers a rare window into the polygenic inheritance of resilience and may help disentangle the genetic and epigenetic contributions to extreme longevity," notes Dr. de Castro.

From Science Daily • Jan. 8, 2026

But the more we rely on this power, the more our rivals aim to disentangle their economies from our own.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 12, 2025

“There's this thing that we all have called personal subjective consciousness, and that becomes hard to disentangle from the concept of self.”

From Salon • May 26, 2025

Many fires are started deliberately to clear land for agriculture, making it difficult to disentangle the two.

From BBC • May 21, 2025

Dawn found me helping Abu and Seth disentangle nets in a stretch full of submerged trees.

From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo