as in to unravel
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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Aleksei and his wife, who asked to be identified only by their first names out of fear of retaliation should they be deported, watched their 5-year-old twins unravel at the remote, prisonlike facility.—
Mike Hixenbaugh,
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But that deal unraveled after the Pretti shooting in Minneapolis.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
13 Mar. 2026
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“Unlay.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unlay. Accessed 16 Mar. 2026.
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