unravel
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The agreement began to unravel on Sunday when ships approaching the southern route received a warning from Iranian operators through a radio transmission.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026
Walsh tried to unravel his defence, at one stage focusing heavily on the meeting with Complainant B in the late 1990s.
From BBC ● Jun. 22, 2026
The second order, on post-quantum cryptography, addresses a looming vulnerability: the rise of quantum computers powerful enough to unravel the public-key cryptography underpinning secure web browsing and blockchain networks.
From Barron's ● Jun. 22, 2026
The risk is in how quickly it could unravel.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 8, 2026
And it is a history of the paradoxes posed by an innocent-looking number, rattling even this century’s brightest minds and threatening to unravel the whole framework of scientific thought.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
A failed breakout of that nature, especially one that unravels quickly, would be a meaningful bearish signal.
From Barron's ● Feb. 12, 2026
She played the obsessive and troubled woman, Martha, who dramatically unravels onscreen.
From BBC ● Dec. 23, 2025
We wander back wet, down to Castillo Square, down to the ghosts of Bar Milano, a stand-in for Bar Torino, and Café Suizo, where the fiesta unravels in insults, a love polygon and fisticuffs.
From Salon ● Nov. 8, 2025
After stealing focus in everything from “Bridesmaids” to “Insidious,” Rose Byrne unravels beautifully in “If I Had Legs I’d Kick You,” a bold, career-best turn.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2025
He unravels a piece of the wire and runs it through his fingers.
From "Catching Fire" by Suzanne Collins
The Hunts’ broader silver gambit—which drove up prices for the precious metal—was unraveled by regulators in 1980 and silver prices crashed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 4, 2026
The attack quickly unraveled when Mangubat revealed she was engaged and actively planning her wedding.
From Salon ● May 30, 2026
Zscaler has been tapped as a favorite cybersecurity stock by some analysts, but investor optimism seems to have unraveled Wednesday after the company’s outlook for revenue in the current quarter fell short of expectations.
From MarketWatch ● May 27, 2026
Female wasps began aggressively competing for dominance, and the colony's normal social structure quickly unraveled.
From Science Daily ● May 26, 2026
Using a razor blade, she nicked the next dot on one of her pencils and unraveled the paper.
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
On it, smart cameras installed around his home relayed images of his house, now under clear blue skies, with the hosepipe in the yard unravelled where he left it.
From Barron's ● Jul. 27, 2026
Griffiths' lies unravelled when he agreed to buy a £650,000 house in Llantwit Major in the Vale of Glamorgan in order to be closer to his place of work.
From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2026
World number one Aryna Sabalenka saw her French Open title hopes vanish as she completely unravelled in a crushing quarter-final defeat by Diana Shnaider in yet another shock result at this year's tournament.
From BBC ● Jun. 3, 2026
It was an interesting choice to describe a player who’d unravelled a few nights before, but it felt like the correct read.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 14, 2026
Things then unravelled, like a film of the events of the previous two decades being run backwards at high speed.
From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin
The unraveling of the Situational Awareness hedge fund has inspired comparisons with Long-Term Capital Management, a legendary hedge fund that failed in spectacular fashion in 1998.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 31, 2026
On the ChatGPT timeline, nearly the same point coincides with Situational Awareness’s unraveling.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 31, 2026
But his life had been unraveling long before then.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026
The latest strikes, the second round in just 24 hours, were the starkest sign yet that efforts to clinch a permanent peace agreement are unraveling.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026
I couldn’t help thinking how sickened Howie would have been if he’d seen the pathetic unraveling of the family he’d worked so hard for.
From "Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet" by Joanne Proulx
The pause follows nearly two weeks of daily US strikes and tit-for-tat attacks, effectively unravelling the ceasefire struck in June.
From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2026
Brendon McCullum has been sacked as Test coach in another staggering twist in the unravelling of the England team.
From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2026
"I believe that it is highly unlikely that a statutory inquiry would be able to make further progress on unravelling the technical aspects of the programme failure," he said.
From BBC ● May 14, 2026
"No adversary should mistake our current restraint with a lack of resolve," General Dan Caine told reporters, amid fears the current US-Iranian ceasefire is unravelling.
From Barron's ● May 5, 2026
I come to ask for counsel and the unravelling of hard words.
From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien
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