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After managing to untangle him, Lee said it was a struggle to get him back to the surface as he was "much bigger than me".

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026

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

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

Years of additional legal proceedings have yet to untangle who is to blame.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026

Over the years, over the course of her life, she would try repeatedly to untangle these threads, and find each time that they were hopelessly intertwined.

From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng

In writing about the ways folks hold together during difficult times, Trías untangles the myths and realities of resilience.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2024

"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

Like a particularly sharp country song, it takes cliches and untangles and renews them.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 7, 2023

Momma lets me hug her for a minute, and then she untangles my arms from around her waist.

From "A Good Kind of Trouble" by Lisa Moore Ramée

Ultimately, Zoom founder Eric Yuan and his team untangled many obstacles that blocked smooth, cheap videoconferencing, launching early versions of their service in 2012.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 15, 2025

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

His patience was steady as I cut cords and untangled myself.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2024

Pospisil landed on top of him, the players untangled themselves and play continued without a penalty call.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 4, 2024

Monday’s Tinies quoted Sergeant Jalbert as saying the dive team untangled Fred from tree limbs.

From "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen

Therefore, it is up to us to do the internal work of untangling these contradictions.

From Salon ● Sep. 13, 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 great interview for your evening dog walk: Anna Konkle had a difficult childhood, one that she’s still untangling.

From Slate ● Jun. 23, 2026

Her mother, very soon to be a grandmother, is standing at the mirror of her dressing table, untangling waist-length hair, still more black than gray, with her fingers.

From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri