1
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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Then, in the ninth inning, everything unraveled.—
Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
29 Mar. 2026
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The arrangement unraveled in 2022, after one of the involved parties bragged about it at a professional conference and was overheard by an LAUSD employee who reported the comments to district officials, the complaint said.—
Clara Harter,
Los Angeles Times,
27 Mar. 2026
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The state’s Supreme Court threw out the verdict and Cosby was freed from prison after serving nearly three years of a three- to 10-year sentence.—
Andrew Dalton,
Chicago Tribune,
24 Mar. 2026
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Moss, the only woman who had been freed under the Survivors’ Act, attended the hearings that summer.—
Pamela Colloff,
ProPublica,
24 Mar. 2026
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Provocative journalist and interviewer of the powerful There were those for whom art could not be disentangled from life, whose creations, often read as confessions, were intrinsically connected to their identities.—
Amisha Padnani,
New York Times,
6 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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Thousands of lives could potentially be saved and improved over the years if the invention, now in the advanced stage, were approved.—
Pamela McLoughlin,
Hartford Courant,
25 Mar. 2026
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Pemberton saved electric guitars, present nowhere else in the score, for exactly that beat.—
Sarah Shachat,
IndieWire,
25 Mar. 2026
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Two people suffered serious injuries and were extricated by firefighters.—
Justin Muszynski,
Hartford Courant,
16 Mar. 2026
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The Toyota driver was critically hurt and had to be extricated by local fire personnel, and was airlifted to a hospital in Chicago due to the severity of her injuries.—
Jeramie Bizzle,
CBS News,
15 Mar. 2026
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In its most generous version, this framing presents him as a heroic figure who liberated architecture from disciplinary orthodoxy.—
Julian Rose,
Artforum,
26 Mar. 2026
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During the Iran-Iraq war, Iran liberated its territory by 1982 but didn’t agree to a ceasefire until 1988, after hundreds of thousands of additional casualties and an international hostage crisis.—
Eva Roytburg,
Fortune,
24 Mar. 2026
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“Untangled.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/untangled. Accessed 1 Apr. 2026.
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