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as in unraveled
to separate the various strands of
gently untangled the baby's hair
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as in freed
to set free from entanglement or difficulty
I was finally able to untangle myself from my credit problems
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Recent Examples of untangled
They eventually were untangled, and the referees were convening at center ice when Tkachuk skated off the bench and toward the Red Wings penalty box to talk to Edvinsson.
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Ryan Canfield, FOXNews.com, 27 Feb. 2026
At the end of Manchester City’s 2-1 recent win against Liverpool, as officials gradually untangled the bizarre late incident involving Erling Haaland and Dominik Szoboszlai, Neville informed viewers how close the game was to full time.
—Michael Cox, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2026
Nor can their connection be easily untangled.
—David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 13 Feb. 2026
This petite, chic travel jewelry case keeps necklaces untangled, prevents rings from drifting to the bottom of her carry-on, and secures earring posts from bending or breaking.
—Annie Blackman, InStyle, 4 Feb. 2026
North Crowley fell on it first, but when the pile was untangled, Allen tight end Jackson Hoppe had it.
—Cody Thorn, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 5 Dec. 2025
Each is a kind of performance, Blue Cowboy implies, that can be untangled and revealed as a fiction but also contains something beautiful in its sustained gesture.
—Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 6 Nov. 2025
Each salmon must be untangled from the net one by one.
—Andrew Watman, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
Ryan Canfield, FOXNews.com, 27 Feb. 2026
At the end of Manchester City’s 2-1 recent win against Liverpool, as officials gradually untangled the bizarre late incident involving Erling Haaland and Dominik Szoboszlai, Neville informed viewers how close the game was to full time.
—Michael Cox, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2026
Nor can their connection be easily untangled.
—David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 13 Feb. 2026
This petite, chic travel jewelry case keeps necklaces untangled, prevents rings from drifting to the bottom of her carry-on, and secures earring posts from bending or breaking.
—Annie Blackman, InStyle, 4 Feb. 2026
North Crowley fell on it first, but when the pile was untangled, Allen tight end Jackson Hoppe had it.
—Cody Thorn, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 5 Dec. 2025
Each is a kind of performance, Blue Cowboy implies, that can be untangled and revealed as a fiction but also contains something beautiful in its sustained gesture.
—Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 6 Nov. 2025
Each salmon must be untangled from the net one by one.
—Andrew Watman, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for untangled
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Things unraveled for Grace Prep in the second stanza.—
Mike Waters,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
1 Mar. 2026
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His entire plan is being unraveled.—
Tom Smyth,
Vulture,
27 Feb. 2026
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Freedom will also be tested by whether the Yemeni people, who were hijacked by the Houthis, are freed from the shackles of that Iranian proxy.—
Felice Friedson,
New York Daily News,
10 Mar. 2026
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After the slaves were freed and cotton was no longer king, a different sort of richness was pulled from the ground in Walker County.—
USA Today,
USA Today,
8 Mar. 2026
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The filing underscores the administration’s position that immigration enforcement and foreign policy decisions cannot be disentangled from national security concerns and that all of those are solely under the federal government’s purview.—
Kaelan Deese,
The Washington Examiner,
13 Jan. 2026
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No Spotify or Netflix exists for literature, where (other than with some exceptions, such as for vinyl collectors) the medium and the message are more easily disentangled, but the codex has endured for two millennia whereas the CD and the DVD lasted barely two decades.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
24 Nov. 2025
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Like a mangrove in a hurricane, that root structure that bound them together may very well be what saved it all.—
Moira McCarthy,
Boston Herald,
4 Mar. 2026
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Her insistence also is part of what saved Malinovsky’s life.—
Helen I. Bennett,
Hartford Courant,
4 Mar. 2026
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Gary Glenn Berner of Greenwich was pronounced dead at the scene after being extricated from his vehicle, a 2023 Subaru Outback, according to Connecticut State Police.—
Justin Muszynski,
Hartford Courant,
1 Mar. 2026
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Firefighters extricated the man from the tracks.—
Matthew Rodriguez,
CBS News,
23 Feb. 2026
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Chicago visitors will also see items never before displayed publicly, including a letter Anne’s father, Otto Frank, wrote in 1945, after being liberated from Auschwitz.—
Eva Remijan-Toba,
Chicago Tribune,
2 Mar. 2026
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If not liberated, Iranians woke up on Sunday to a stark new reality, as Iranian authorities confirmed that the sweeping round of strikes had killed Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, along with a cadre of other top officials.—
Ishaan Tharoor,
New Yorker,
1 Mar. 2026
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“Untangled.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/untangled. Accessed 12 Mar. 2026.
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