as in unraveled
to separate the various strands of
our tour guide at the maritime museum showed us how sailors used to unlay rope
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unraveled
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That infrastructure unraveled almost overnight when a 90-day hold on foreign aid funds took effect the day of the presidential inauguration.—
Robert Alexander,
MSNBC Newsweek,
6 Oct. 2025 -
The story of a Louisville man charged in connection to the murder of his fiancée had not fully unraveled when he was acquitted in 1991.—
Leo Bertucci,
Louisville Courier Journal,
4 Oct. 2025
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“Unlaid.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unlaid. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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