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Recent Examples of unknotWhat at first presents itself as a survival horror, though, slowly unknots itself with twists and turns.—Jessica Wang, EW.com, 20 Sep. 2024 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.—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
The situation began to unfold after the ship was untied from the dock at 8:16 p.m. Three minutes later, the tugboat Charles D. McAllister assisted the Cuauhtémoc off the pier.
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Doc Louallen,
ABC News,
30 June 2025
But the audience reaction still reflects something interesting about the challenges of adaptation and how some great stories come with knots that cannot be untied.
Over 100 snakes removed from homeowner’s garden in Sydney
A sight like this would rattle the nerves of most homeowners … Read how a snake catcher uncoiled the mystery behind a backyard snake infestation.
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Alexandra Banner,
CNN,
7 Feb. 2025
The snake uncoiled and hung down between the engine and the tire, looking at him with yellow beady eyes.
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Karen Bartunek,
The Arizona Republic,
13 Nov. 2024
Since returning to the White House, President Donald Trump has undone many of the Biden-era immigration policies.
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Ana Ceballos,
Miami Herald,
28 June 2025
As the Catholic archdiocese hunts for ways to contract, it’s been shedding churches wholesale and having no trouble finding buyers that are tuned to the doings — or undoing — of religious organizations.
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