Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for raveled
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Ilia Malinin’s gold-medal hopes unraveled in the free skate after a string of mistakes and two falls dropped him to eighth place.—
Staff,
FOXNews.com,
18 Feb. 2026 -
The Senate was expected to pass it soon after, but as STAT’s John Wilkerson reports, the plan unraveled as debate over ICE funding increased.—
Theresa Gaffney,
STAT,
17 Feb. 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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At the end of Manchester City’s 2-1 recent win against Liverpool, as officials gradually untangled the bizarre late incident involving Erling Haaland and Dominik Szoboszlai, Neville informed viewers how close the game was to full time.—
Michael Cox,
New York Times,
18 Feb. 2026
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Nor can their connection be easily untangled.—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
13 Feb. 2026
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“Raveled.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/raveled. Accessed 27 Feb. 2026.
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