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as in to fray
to separate the various strands of
it took us forever to unravel the jumbled mass of Christmas tree lights
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as in to solve
to find an answer for through reasoning
unraveled the mystery
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Recent Examples of unravel
To find her way home, Tashia must unravel the mystery, gather clues and uncover the secrets behind the market’s residents and their untimely deaths.
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Destiny Jackson, Deadline, 11 June 2026
However, their relationship quickly unraveled after their arrests.
—Jessica Sager, PEOPLE, 11 June 2026
Why The Monolithic Agent Breaks In practice, this is usually the point where pilots start to unravel.
—Praveen Satyanarayana, Forbes.com, 11 June 2026
The game unraveled in the eighth.
—Maddie Lee, Los Angeles Times, 10 June 2026
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Destiny Jackson, Deadline, 11 June 2026
However, their relationship quickly unraveled after their arrests.
—Jessica Sager, PEOPLE, 11 June 2026
Why The Monolithic Agent Breaks In practice, this is usually the point where pilots start to unravel.
—Praveen Satyanarayana, Forbes.com, 11 June 2026
The game unraveled in the eighth.
—Maddie Lee, Los Angeles Times, 10 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unravel
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The commercial-grade knitted fabric is designed to resist tearing and fraying.—
BestReviews,
Mercury News,
10 June 2026
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No matter what style Barnes is toying with, their antenna perks up when relationships start to fray.—
Ethan Beck,
Pitchfork,
9 June 2026
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Addressing reporters for the first time since The Associated Press projected a November runoff between her and Mayor Karen Bass, Raman said residents are losing faith in the city’s ability to solve even basic problems and are demanding a different approach.—
Teresa Liu,
Daily News,
11 June 2026
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Ferveret, a startup from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), is using cooling technology deployed in nuclear reactors to solve challenges faced by data centers today.—
Ameya Paleja,
Interesting Engineering,
11 June 2026
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So when a diabetic patient develops gastroparesis, untangling whether the drug or the disease is responsible is genuinely difficult.—
Ryan Brennan,
Charlotte Observer,
13 June 2026
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But something in there was broken, which a senior engineer already behind on a deadline had to untangle, while Robin struggled to explain.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
12 June 2026
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Jeff Shell, the former president of Paramount Skydance, has resolved litigation with a gambler who accused him of leaking confidential company information and who sought $150 million for off-the-books crisis PR work.—
Gene Maddaus,
Variety,
11 June 2026
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The internally handled calls documenting how the detention center resolved concerns relayed by 911 dispatchers were not available to the Herald.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
11 June 2026
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The patterns bear the hallmarks of overlapping portfolio-management strategies, often index-based and much of it likely automated, and all of it difficult to disentangle.—
Justina Lee,
Fortune,
23 May 2026
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This is practically impossible for something with an enormous mass like a planet or star, as there’s no known way to disentangle the gravitational constant (G) from a mass (M) from orbital mechanics alone.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
6 May 2026
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The Blue Jays answered with two-out RBI hits by Kazuma Okamoto in the third and Nathan Lukes in the fourth.—
CBS New York Team,
CBS News,
15 June 2026
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Towns fouled out, Wembanyama split two free throws, Harper tied the game, and Brunson answered with another basket to put the Knicks back in front.—
Dan Zaksheske,
FOXNews.com,
14 June 2026
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Daily untwisted the beer bottle cap, poured it into his shoe, and took a healthy swig, standing up for dramatic effect.—
Marina Watts,
Entertainment Weekly,
3 June 2026
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For that matter, how many chiropractic bills have been incurred by members of Congress who needed help untwisting their backbones contorted by bowing to Trump’s demands? Victims, each and every one.—
Pat Beall,
Sun Sentinel,
22 May 2026
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How to unsnarl the emotions that play tug-of-war with our souls?—
Michael Schulman,
New Yorker,
15 Dec. 2025
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During the recent supply-chain crisis, XPO helped unsnarl bottlenecks for customers in several industries.—
Joann S. Lublin,
Time,
27 Nov. 2022
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“Unravel.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unravel. Accessed 16 Jun. 2026.
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