untangle
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Our collective lives are like a tapestry of the adorable and the dreadful thrown together, and there’s no way to untangle the two.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 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
No need to untangle the complex hypocrisy here — it’s all laid out in arrows and diagrams.
From Salon ● Jul. 4, 2026
The rules and features of each are a lot for sleep-starved parents to untangle, but financial advisers have a general framework to help parents determine which accounts they should give priority to.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 23, 2026
“But why not share the information in the diary? Perhaps we could help each other untangle its meaning.”
From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood
"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
Rubenhold untangles the myths of history-making and writes with great empathy about the hardships the women endured when alive and the rampant misogyny they faced when dead.
From New York Times ● Oct. 12, 2022
He untangles the messy feelings of midlife, the loss of his mother to cancer and the ambivalence provoked by returning home.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2021
Someone starts a slow clap, and Abby untangles our hands to join in.
From "Leah on the Offbeat" by Becky Albertalli
“That innocuous little essay untangled some aching knot inside me,” she writes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
Unlike in three dimensions, those paths cannot simply be untangled afterward.
From Science Daily ● May 9, 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
James caused just enough of a distraction that Reid missed, the Lakers pushing the other way and scoring as James untangled himself from a collapsed row of chairs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 28, 2025
The chess board seemed to hold elaborate secrets waiting to be untangled.
From "The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan
Jenée Desmond-Harris offers advice on untangling this knotty disagreement.
From Slate ● Jul. 21, 2026
Taking a stand will involve you untangling years of conditioning.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 27, 2026
Market volatility is creating a golden opportunity for new private-equity deals—but not for untangling a global bottleneck of almost 33,000 portfolio companies waiting to be sold, industry executives say.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 13, 2026
It was in that office where I began untangling some of my own history, much of which would later appear in my first book.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 16, 2026
They ran straight to Francesca, who was busy untangling the kittens wound around her right leg.
From "Wishtree" by Katherine Applegate
