1
as in unraveled
to separate the various strands of
it took forever to disentangle the knot
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2
as in freed
to set free from entanglement or difficulty
the years that it took to disentangle ourselves from our troubles after someone started using our social security numbers
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Recent Examples of disentangled
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.
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Amisha Padnani, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2026
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
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, 24 Nov. 2025
Amisha Padnani, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2026
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
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, 24 Nov. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for disentangled
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That sense of security unraveled in 2021.—
Tony Plohetski,
Austin American Statesman,
19 Mar. 2026
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Within an hour, the training exercise unraveled into a cascading accident.—
Madison Dapcevich,
Outside,
19 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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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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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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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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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.—
Ryan Canfield,
FOXNews.com,
27 Feb. 2026
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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
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This grocery store rewards loyal customers with discounts and points that can be redeemed for free merchandise.—
Roxana Popescu,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
26 Mar. 2026
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Prizes may not be substituted for or redeemed for cash.—
CBS LA Staff,
CBS News,
25 Mar. 2026
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The volume also ran counter to the muted response from cultural figures, including musicians, who have been surprisingly disengaged from the conflict.—
Lily Moayeri,
Rolling Stone,
3 Mar. 2026
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After a short standoff, both forces reportedly disengaged.—
Christopher McFadden,
Interesting Engineering,
21 Feb. 2026
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“Disentangled.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disentangled. Accessed 27 Mar. 2026.
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