unweave

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Now that narrative is starting to unweave itself.

From Salon • Jan. 14, 2025

“This is an opportunity for Seattle to be truly progressive, to unpack and unweave those racist and biased practices embedded in all institutions of power,” said Chelsea Hendrickson, Northern Arapaho and Cupiq.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 9, 2019

To unweave the plot before your eyes would require several assistants from the circulation department and a committee of subscribers to appear and certify that the narrative implements are without trickery.

From Time Magazine Archive

It is to unweave a stuff, to draw out thread by thread, so as to separate the gold.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 566, September 15, 1832 by Various

For, wild Penelope, the web you wove You still unweave, unloving all your love; Is this to love me, Or what rights have I that scorn could deny?

From New Poems by Thompson, Francis