disentangle

Example Sentences

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Teenagers who listen to aggressive music differ from those who don’t in ways that are hard to observe and harder to disentangle.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 2, 2026

"It's hard to disentangle but it is not hard to disentangle when it's market reaction to an announcement."

From BBC • Jan. 16, 2026

"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

“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

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