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

Those who study the root causes of crime say that it may take years, if not decades, to disentangle the causes of the pandemic-era surge in violence and the precipitous drop that has followed.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 8, 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

That coincided with rising industrialisation, when burning of fossil fuels, particularly coal, began to heat up our atmosphere, but it's hard to disentangle natural and human causes that far back in time.

From BBC • Oct. 4, 2025

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

From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo