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Noting the long-standing tensions between North and South Korea, Trump said "we will see what we can do to get that all straightened out".

From BBC • Oct. 29, 2025

When his Part D drug plan declined to cover one of his medications, the office staff called the insurance company and got it straightened out, saving him time and frustration.

From Barron's • Sep. 25, 2025

“With the law straightened out, we could be doing real mining in a couple of years,” one mining executive told The New York Times in 1977.

From Salon • Aug. 19, 2024

Still, the calendar won’t wait for Smith to get things completely straightened out.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 22, 2023

He battened down the guy wires over which Mrs. Verda Carmichael’s raspberries were trellised, straightened out the contents of her shadowy toolshed, and bundled up her cedar kindling—all of it permeated by thoughts about Hatsue.

From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson




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