disentangle
verb
dis·en·tan·gle
ˌdis-in-ˈtaŋ-gəl 
disentangled; disentangling; disentangles
: to free from entanglement : unravel
: to become disentangled
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Examples of disentangle in a Sentence
it took forever to disentangle the knot
the years that it took to disentangle ourselves from our troubles after someone started using our social security numbers
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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.
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Veralyn Williams, NPR, 6 Jan. 2025
And yet a joint biography is the only kind that feels appropriate; posthumously disentangling one brother from the other seems tantamount to desecrating a corpse, for Jacob and Wilhelm were ardently inseparable.
—Jennifer Wilson, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2024
The sense that any one of their lives could suddenly be upended by the chance to emigrate is felt in every scene, as if the reality of contemporary Cuba could not be disentangled from its increasingly porous relationship to the world at large.
—Peter Debruge, Variety, 10 Jan. 2025
However, as his work is soaked in fantasies about violent death, his final act is hard to disentangle from his books.
—Ian Buruma, The New Yorker, 9 Jan. 2025
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Veralyn Williams, NPR, 6 Jan. 2025
And yet a joint biography is the only kind that feels appropriate; posthumously disentangling one brother from the other seems tantamount to desecrating a corpse, for Jacob and Wilhelm were ardently inseparable.
—Jennifer Wilson, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2024
The sense that any one of their lives could suddenly be upended by the chance to emigrate is felt in every scene, as if the reality of contemporary Cuba could not be disentangled from its increasingly porous relationship to the world at large.
—Peter Debruge, Variety, 10 Jan. 2025
However, as his work is soaked in fantasies about violent death, his final act is hard to disentangle from his books.
—Ian Buruma, The New Yorker, 9 Jan. 2025
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“Disentangle.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/disentangle. Accessed 1 Feb. 2025.
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