untangling

verb

Definition of untanglingnext
present participle of untangle
1
as in unraveling
to separate the various strands of gently untangled the baby's hair

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2
as in freeing
to set free from entanglement or difficulty I was finally able to untangle myself from my credit problems

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  1. unraveling
  2. freeing
  3. disentangling
Verb
  • But Forbes reported that unraveling TikTok from ByteDance will be all but impossible, and more recently, found that if TikTok is banned, Americans’ data could flow back to China.
    Danielle Chemtob, Forbes, 24 Dec. 2024
  • Jack eventually saves Santa and defeats Oogie by unraveling his cloth, revealing a squirming pile of insects.
    Mike Miller, People.com, 19 Dec. 2024
Definition of unraveling
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  • What’s striking is how his ideas about American tech supremacy — freeing innovators from regulation and government intervention, among them — align with the firm’s mission.
    David Jeans, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024
  • Once implemented, blockchain can enable automated enforcement of compliance standards, freeing teams to focus on innovation rather than regulation.
    Mrinal Manohar, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024
Definition of freeing
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  • Patel has talked about disentangling the FBI’s intelligence-gathering operations — now a core function of the bureau’s mandate — from the rest of its operations.
    Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 1 Dec. 2024
  • For conditions like obesity, neurodegenerative disease (like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases), and some psychiatric diseases (like depression), disentangling cause from effect is more challenging.
    Keren Landman, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
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