unravel
Example Sentences
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Unknown to Carley, the former private school teacher's dishonesty started to unravel at a drizzly Remembrance Day parade in Llandudno in 2024 – a year before he would be outed in national news.
From BBC
Jimmy Kimmel said he was surprised to win best talk series, before unravelling a comically long written acceptance speech.
From BBC
Understanding this connection could help clarify how diabetes treatments fit into cancer prevention and care, though further research is still needed to unravel the underlying biology.
From Science Daily
Ozempic revealed that a belief once thought broadly accepted had been held together more by pressure than by conviction, only to unravel once honesty felt safer.
Facing an unraveling marriage, a middle-aged lawyer sets off on a road trip in the hopes of rediscovering his life’s meaning.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.