1
as in fraying
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 solving
to find an answer for through reasoning
unraveled the mystery
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Recent Examples of unraveling
What was once envisioned as a vital partnership of the 21st century is fraying—and becoming another source of uncertainty in a world order that seems to be unraveling.
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Vaibhav Vats, The Atlantic, 10 Sep. 2025
Now that safety net is unraveling.
—Kimberly Wilson, Essence, 7 Sep. 2025
Hired by Leo's sister-in-law (Shailene Woodley), Detective Bali sniffs out the winding secrets of the powerful Vardakis family, unraveling a crime of passion.
—Catherine Santino, PEOPLE, 6 Sep. 2025
In sociology and the social sciences, liminality describes the in‑between state when old structures are unraveling but new ones have not yet taken hold.
—Hansel Alejandro Aguilar, Mercury News, 6 Sep. 2025
The stickiness of such materials is fickle, which means her home is constantly unraveling and requires a steady influx of cheap supplies from eBay, Etsy, and Amazon.
—Laura Bannister, Curbed, 5 Sep. 2025
The international order that was set after the end of the Cold War is clearly at risk of unraveling.
—Ivana Kottasová, CNN Money, 4 Sep. 2025
Now, scientists are unraveling a dramatic story secreted away in rare, roughly 800 million-year-old volcanic rocks called carbonatites.
—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 3 Sep. 2025
While Bowyer understood his organization was unraveling, his players did not yet know about the raid.
—David Amsden, Rolling Stone, 29 Aug. 2025
Vaibhav Vats, The Atlantic, 10 Sep. 2025
Now that safety net is unraveling.
—Kimberly Wilson, Essence, 7 Sep. 2025
Hired by Leo's sister-in-law (Shailene Woodley), Detective Bali sniffs out the winding secrets of the powerful Vardakis family, unraveling a crime of passion.
—Catherine Santino, PEOPLE, 6 Sep. 2025
In sociology and the social sciences, liminality describes the in‑between state when old structures are unraveling but new ones have not yet taken hold.
—Hansel Alejandro Aguilar, Mercury News, 6 Sep. 2025
The stickiness of such materials is fickle, which means her home is constantly unraveling and requires a steady influx of cheap supplies from eBay, Etsy, and Amazon.
—Laura Bannister, Curbed, 5 Sep. 2025
The international order that was set after the end of the Cold War is clearly at risk of unraveling.
—Ivana Kottasová, CNN Money, 4 Sep. 2025
Now, scientists are unraveling a dramatic story secreted away in rare, roughly 800 million-year-old volcanic rocks called carbonatites.
—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 3 Sep. 2025
While Bowyer understood his organization was unraveling, his players did not yet know about the raid.
—David Amsden, Rolling Stone, 29 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unraveling
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What was once envisioned as a vital partnership of the 21st century is fraying—and becoming another source of uncertainty in a world order that seems to be unraveling.—
Vaibhav Vats,
The Atlantic,
10 Sep. 2025
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Advertisement Sports fandom has a special power to connect people, especially at a time when so many of our traditional civic bonds are fraying.—
Todd Rogers,
Time,
4 Sep. 2025
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Kepler notes that achieving a straight-knee gait with this hybrid setup required solving both mechanical and control challenges, especially when moving from simulation to physical robots.—
Kaif Shaikh,
Interesting Engineering,
12 Sep. 2025
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But ask yourself—are these experiments solving top-priority problems?—
Rishit Lakhani,
Forbes.com,
11 Sep. 2025
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Our narrator, a gay, happily married father of two disentangling himself from a poly love affair, is—depending on the light—brilliant, self-mythologizing, abject, hopeful, and vulnerable.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
8 Sep. 2025
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Brittany Luse is joined by writer and journalist Ana Marie Cox to get into how people are disentangling alcohol from their lives, and the lessons she's learned as a recovering alcoholic.—
Veralyn Williams,
NPR,
6 Jan. 2025
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Kirk was answering an audience question about mass shootings when the bullet struck his neck, causing students and visitors to flee in panic.—
Thao Nguyen,
USA Today,
13 Sep. 2025
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Kirk was in the middle of answering an audience member's question, which was about mass shootings, when a gunman shot him once in the neck, sending thousands of people running and screaming for safety.—
Kevin Breuninger,
CNBC,
12 Sep. 2025
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But the long-term benefits hinge on implementation and on resolving some potential issues.—
Dan Gingiss,
Forbes.com,
11 Sep. 2025
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Politicians, pundits and free speech groups are emphasizing the point that a functioning democracy depends on resolving differences with words, not weapons.—
Brian Stelter,
CNN Money,
11 Sep. 2025
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Effectively, this turned the workspace into a yank buffer along with all your documents, and undoing any destructive editing operation thus became merely another cut and paste.—
Cameron Kaiser,
ArsTechnica,
12 Sep. 2025
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Annexation, however, could upend that entire process, undoing past agreements and making future ones impossible.—
Yair Rosenberg,
The Atlantic,
11 Sep. 2025
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With the help of resourceful Marie Kreutz (Franka Potente), Bourne evades capture from the CIA — namely data analyst Nicky Parsons (Julia Stiles) and Deputy Director Ward Abbott (Brian Cox) — while untangling his involvement in the deadly Operation Treadstone.—
Declan Gallagher,
Entertainment Weekly,
13 Sep. 2025
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For Glessner Lee, the puzzle of untangling the truth about violent deaths proved irresistible.—
Katie Hafner,
Scientific American,
10 Sep. 2025
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“Unraveling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unraveling. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.
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