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Recent Examples of unknot
What at first presents itself as a survival horror, though, slowly unknots itself with twists and turns.
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Jessica Wang,
EW.com,
20 Sep. 2024
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.
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Matt Stout,
BostonGlobe.com,
7 Dec. 2022
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
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.
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Philippa Snow,
The New Republic,
30 Aug. 2022
Acupressure mats can also improve circulation, unknot tight muscles, and improve sleep.
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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.
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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.
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Editors,
USA TODAY,
25 Apr. 2022
Milwaukee's rally began quietly enough with a pair of Antetokounmpo free throws to unknot the score.
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Matt Velazquez,
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel,
4 Jan. 2020
Jessica Wang,
EW.com,
20 Sep. 2024
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
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
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unknot
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There, by definition, each match has to have a winner and a loser, so any match that ends in a draw proceeds to two 15-minute periods of overtime, and, if that fails to untie the score, a penalty kick shootout.
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Because you can't get untied every time.
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Horse Lords have always dealt in paradox, making tightly wound music that’s constantly uncoiling, fashioning propulsive riffs out of static, theoretical material, assembling sublimity from exposed nerves and raw, twitchy fibers.
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If one were to uncoil the long history of US engagement with Latin America, from the halls of Montezuma to the cells of CECOT, what was the most successful period?
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Meanwhile, adults can unwind at the spa, fitness center, adults-only pool, or Miramar Bar.
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Amirhosein Khorgooi | Reuters Early signs that the Strait of Hormuz is reopening have eased the most acute threat to global energy supplies, but economic damages from the nearly four months of war will take months to unwind, analysts warned.
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More than one hiker has inadvertently gotten the oil on their fingers when unlacing a boot, then transferred it to their forehead.
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Usher followed — reportedly only after unlacing his skates first — and allegedly went to meet Brown & Co. behind some buses parked outside.
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Then unroll the towel and allow the suit to dry flat.
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And then you're supposed to unroll this cake.
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The animator tries it, changes it, undoes it, and little by little the character comes alive.
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If email remains compromised, a hacker can keep undoing every recovery step.
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“Unknot.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unknot. Accessed 27 Jun. 2026.
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