Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for raveled
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Yet, the season unraveled in 2025, due largely to injuries.—
Nicki Jhabvala,
New York Times,
7 Jan. 2026 -
But their plans to get back home have completely unraveled.—
Heath Kalb,
CBS News,
6 Jan. 2026
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Prosecutors and the media had unwound a web of lies from Santos over the years, including illegally spending donor money, lying about being Jewish, and fabricating his resume.—
Ross O'Keefe,
The Washington Examiner,
18 Oct. 2025
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The filing underscores the administration’s position that immigration enforcement and foreign policy decisions cannot be disentangled from national security concerns and that all of those are solely under the federal government’s purview.—
Kaelan Deese,
The Washington Examiner,
13 Jan. 2026
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No Spotify or Netflix exists for literature, where (other than with some exceptions, such as for vinyl collectors) the medium and the message are more easily disentangled, but the codex has endured for two millennia whereas the CD and the DVD lasted barely two decades.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
24 Nov. 2025
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North Crowley fell on it first, but when the pile was untangled, Allen tight end Jackson Hoppe had it.—
Cody Thorn,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
5 Dec. 2025
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Each is a kind of performance, Blue Cowboy implies, that can be untangled and revealed as a fiction but also contains something beautiful in its sustained gesture.—
Jackson McHenry,
Vulture,
6 Nov. 2025
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“Raveled.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/raveled. Accessed 17 Jan. 2026.
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