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disentangle

[dis-en-tang-guhl] / ˌdΙͺs Ι›nˈtΓ¦Ε‹ gΙ™l /


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That’s because the bubble’s promoters are promising that they can replace labor, so you can’t disentangle those two.

From Salon ● Jun. 22, 2026

“It took us decades of cooperation to get here and to disentangle all these things is really, really difficult,” said Gaurav Ganguly, head of international economics at Moody’s Analytics in London.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 7, 2026

Third, by demanding that plaintiffs disentangle race from politics, the court asks them to disprove the very structural reality that social network discrimination reveals.

From Slate ● May 22, 2026

"To disentangle the relative roles of innovation and environmental change, we need further analyses of trait-dependent diversification, fossil-informed timelines and performance tests that link true crabs' sideways movement to adaptive advantages," Kawabata adds.

From Science Daily ● May 2, 2026

Jutta moves through the world somewhere, watching shadows disentangle themselves from night, watching miners limp past in the dawn.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

The researchers found it in much the same way that one disentangles a knot, by pulling on individual threads to see where they lead.

From Salon ● Apr. 6, 2024

Such a genetic signature was detected thanks to a new approach that disentangles 40,000 years of admixture and other confounding events.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 25, 2024

“I agree that before we implement any sweeping limits on youth’s access to social media, we need to have more conclusive evidence that disentangles adolescent use from all other age groups.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 13, 2023

A new study published today disentangles this link in mice, showing that speeding up a mouse’s heart rate made otherwise calm animals act more anxious.

From Science Magazine ● Feb. 28, 2023

But Abby disentangles from Nick and walks toward me.

From "Leah on the Offbeat" by Becky Albertalli

He was a brilliant, compelling and tricky fellow, a novelist and political philosopher who disentangled himself from early communism and became culture minister to Charles de Gaulle in the 1960s.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026

While Figgis’ documentary doesn’t dwell on the problem, “Megadoc” does arguably end up suffering because that ethical knot is never fully disentangled.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2025

Rescuers said it appeared to take its last breath moments after being disentangled.

From BBC ● Mar. 6, 2025

Lauren Krasnoff, president of the Florida Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers’ Miami chapter, said Fortson’s race cannot be disentangled from discussion of the case when invoking the castle doctrine and Stand Your Ground.

From Seattle Times ● May 15, 2024

Julian cautiously removed the stick, and I disentangled myself.

From "The Shakespeare Stealer" by Gary L. Blackwood

China’s leaders have determined that disentangling the two economies—often called “decoupling” or “derisking”—is inevitable.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 5, 2026

Data from the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation show transfers of state prison inmates to ICE custody have trended down since California began disentangling local and federal law enforcement.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 3, 2025

But disentangling this chicken-egg arrangement must start somewhere.

From Slate ● Oct. 20, 2024

Recently, I led an international team of biologists and archaeologists in disentangling the mysteries of how this transformation happens.

From Salon ● Dec. 30, 2023

“Hagrid!” he panted, disentangling himself from the hedgerow into which he had fallen.

From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling


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