untangle

Example Sentences

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Brundage would get up at 4 a.m. and untangle the complex international network of consumer devices making up Ipidea.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

There will be a lot for investors to untangle on Thursday afternoon, when FedEx announces External link its fiscal third-quarter numbers.

From Barron's • Mar. 19, 2026

To reduce the growing problem of plastic waste, researchers are trying to untangle how plastic travels from where it is used on land to where it ultimately ends up in the ocean.

From Science Daily • Jan. 19, 2026

Following the Journal’s recent story about a widow’s struggle to untangle her finances after the death of her husband, we asked readers to share their strategies for avoiding such a scenario.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 14, 2025

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