unknotted; unknotting
: to undo a knot in
unknot a rope
an unknotted tie
Examples of unknot in a Sentence
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The idea is that a meditative approach can allow people to feel with resilience and unknot the ropework of repression without being flooded into despair.
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Hazlitt, 15 Sep. 2022
In nearly eight years, the Republican has appointed nearly 60 percent of the state’s 418 justices, installing judges who will oversee murder trials, reshape constitutional law, and unknot thorny civil litigation for years, if not decades, to come.
—Matt Stout, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Dec. 2022
Being an open-ended query is an ideal state for an online girl, who will doubtless find a million other users hoping to provide her answer, helping to unknot her prettily furrowed brow.
—Philippa Snow, The New Republic, 30 Aug. 2022
Acupressure mats can also improve circulation, unknot tight muscles, and improve sleep.
—Jasmine Washington, Seventeen, 2 Aug. 2022
If someone comes up with an algorithm that can unknot any knot in what’s called polynomial time, that will put the Unknotting Problem fully to rest.
—Dave Linkletter, Popular Mechanics, 22 July 2022
One of the issues the Supreme Court must unknot is whether Kennedy was praying as a private citizen or as an assistant coach and school employee.
—Editors, USA TODAY, 25 Apr. 2022
Milwaukee's rally began quietly enough with a pair of Antetokounmpo free throws to unknot the score.
—Matt Velazquez, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 4 Jan. 2020
In different ways, these two books, particularly Crespino’s, unknot the immense tangle of racial and personal and regional issues that Lee reflected and defined.
—Charles Finch, USA TODAY, 25 June 2018
Hazlitt, 15 Sep. 2022
In nearly eight years, the Republican has appointed nearly 60 percent of the state’s 418 justices, installing judges who will oversee murder trials, reshape constitutional law, and unknot thorny civil litigation for years, if not decades, to come.
—Matt Stout, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Dec. 2022
Being an open-ended query is an ideal state for an online girl, who will doubtless find a million other users hoping to provide her answer, helping to unknot her prettily furrowed brow.
—Philippa Snow, The New Republic, 30 Aug. 2022
Acupressure mats can also improve circulation, unknot tight muscles, and improve sleep.
—Jasmine Washington, Seventeen, 2 Aug. 2022
If someone comes up with an algorithm that can unknot any knot in what’s called polynomial time, that will put the Unknotting Problem fully to rest.
—Dave Linkletter, Popular Mechanics, 22 July 2022
One of the issues the Supreme Court must unknot is whether Kennedy was praying as a private citizen or as an assistant coach and school employee.
—Editors, USA TODAY, 25 Apr. 2022
Milwaukee's rally began quietly enough with a pair of Antetokounmpo free throws to unknot the score.
—Matt Velazquez, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 4 Jan. 2020
In different ways, these two books, particularly Crespino’s, unknot the immense tangle of racial and personal and regional issues that Lee reflected and defined.
—Charles Finch, USA TODAY, 25 June 2018
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First Known Use
1598, in the meaning defined above
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