untwine

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“To untwine it to one aspect of it diminishes the other, and I don’t want to do that. It’s the totality of it. It’s the gestalt of it.”

From Washington Post • Aug. 1, 2022

It would be difficult to untwine the system by which we measured much of the past 80 years — but that isn’t really New Zealand’s goal.

From Washington Post • Jun. 14, 2019

They are two events in his life he will never be able to untwine.

From BBC • Nov. 20, 2013

She later said the police had to untwine him before he could be taken to the ambulance.

From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou

There- fore, Search while thou wilt; and let thy reason go, To ransom truth, e'en to th' abyss below; Rally the scatter'd causes; and that line Which nature twists be able to untwine.

From Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and the Letter to a Friend by Browne, Thomas, Sir