untangle
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Letsch, the elder-law attorney in Iowa, said she often hears from families trying to untangle messes with farms because they’ve been given bad advice.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 25, 2026
Roughly a third of adults now consult AI for health advice, leaving doctors to untangle erroneous guidance.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
He told the judge it would be impossible to untangle the two companies if they are allowed to combine.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026
Attribution science seeks to untangle how much human-caused climate change shaped a specific heat wave, storm or flood, and its findings now shape litigation and policy.
From Barron's ● Jul. 15, 2026
Olka could devour a four-hundred-page tome in a night, could remember the details, could untangle the themes.
From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman
In the tradition of the finest memoir writing, the author spares no one, herself least of all, as she untangles the bad from the good while still allowing for some tricky knots.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 1, 2025
"This work untangles some of the secrets and shows how N-terminal acetylation shape individual protein fate," Thomas Arnesen concludes.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 27, 2023
"It is hard for the government to shore up economic growth unless it untangles the complex knot of weak confidence," said Gary Ng, senior economist at Natixis Corporate and Investment Bank.
From Reuters ● Jul. 31, 2023
Copper’s uncle untangles the mystery of the style’s creation, showing how Greek artists brought east by Alexander the Great took up Buddhist subjects, which turned the physical affirmations of their own work more mystically inward.
From New York Times ● Nov. 12, 2021
Mom untangles Abuela’s hair with a wide-toothed comb.
From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García
How can Mr. Warsh get the Fed untangled?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 20, 2026
In a sense, then, the alliance is held together by complex supply chains and contractual agreements that could not possibly be untangled overnight.
From BBC ● Mar. 5, 2025
With this in mind, to create a map of the true relationships between Myotis bats, Foley and Murphy first untangled the genetic code for hybridization so they could tell more clearly which species were which.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 20, 2024
The divers’ haul one late-summer Sunday wasn’t much, but there were clumps and clumps of fishing line untangled from underwater objects.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 30, 2023
He untangled himself, put the phone down quietly, and tiptoed into his parents’ room.
From "Bridge to Terabithia" by Katherine Paterson
Jenée Desmond-Harris offers advice on untangling this knotty disagreement.
From Slate ● Jul. 21, 2026
The novel follows Susan, a queer creative untangling the coulda, woulda, shoulda situationship that has spanned decades, while grappling with the reality of a career that dips and shifts in a changing media landscape.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 2026
Taking a stand will involve you untangling years of conditioning.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 27, 2026
A new study introduces a genome-wide approach for untangling these complex genetic histories.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 19, 2026
Instead of struggling with the knots in my wet hair, I merely place my hand on a box that sends a current through my scalp, untangling, parting, and drying my hair almost instantly.
From "The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins
