How to Use disentangle in a Sentence

disentangle

verb
Definition of disentanglenext
Synonyms for disentanglenext
  • Those two things are hard to disentangle, though, in thinking about the future of the court.
    — New York Times, 11 May 2022
  • But the fastest computers of the time weren’t fast enough to disentangle them.
    — Ben Crair, The New Yorker, 15 July 2022
  • The authors disentangle a fruit bat from a net during the Belize Bat-a-thon.
    — Wei Gordon, Discover Magazine, 12 Jan. 2024
  • Aerial footage shows Django diving into the sea from a small boat and disentangling the whale from the shark net.
    — Fox News, 19 May 2020
  • Experts are working to disentangle the snarl now for fear that things could get worse if Roe v. Wade is overturned.
    — Sakshi Venkatraman, NBC News, 11 May 2022
  • The goal of such policies is not to disentangle the United States from the global marketplace.
    — Martin Vantrieste, STAT, 5 Oct. 2020
  • In the study so far, CBT seems to be disentangling the salience and default mode networks in some people with fibromyalgia.
    — Amber Dance, Scientific American, 20 Jan. 2020
  • Yeganeh agrees that the role of the programmer can never be fully disentangled from the product.
    — The Christian Science Monitor, 7 May 2018
  • The ground wire will either be affixed via a green screw or wrapped around the bracket holding the light; use a screwdriver or your hands to disentangle it.
    — Jennifer Barger, Washington Post, 19 Jan. 2023
  • The crisis can't be disentangled from race, experts say Now, residents are having to figure out what to do with the trash on their own.
    — Jeanine Santucci, USA TODAY, 7 Apr. 2023
  • Last year, a whale rescuer in Nova Scotia was killed when he was struck by the tail of a right whale, moments after disentangling it, the spokesperson said.
    — Elise Takahama, BostonGlobe.com, 14 July 2018
  • Science fiction can be hard to disentangle from the real world.
    — Emily Bobrow, WSJ, 21 Aug. 2020
  • Who would have the time or energy to try to disentangle its origins, and then to combat my identities?
    — Ben Lerner, Harper's Magazine, 3 Nov. 2023
  • One way to begin to disentangle whether the brain differences predate the disease is to study people very early in its course.
    — Jennifer Couzin-Frankel, Science | AAAS, 9 Apr. 2020
  • The fire department’s report shed light on the effort to disentangle and extricate the victim from beneath the train.
    — Matt Bruce, ajc, 8 Jan. 2022
  • In this case, a team led by the University of Exeter’s Russell Blackport tried to disentangle the chain of events with a clever analysis.
    — Scott K. Johnson, Ars Technica, 12 Aug. 2019
  • Even if a major ISS partner does decide to withdraw from the project, the transition may take months or even years to fully disentangle.
    — Joanna Thompson, Scientific American, 25 Feb. 2022
  • The Murdochs, facing scrutiny on a number of fronts, have sought to disentangle themselves from a web of legal threats.
    — Oliver Darcy, CNN, 15 June 2023
  • And the world was silent for so long, unable to disentangle the rightful claim to power with mass extermination and torture.
    — The Enquirer, 27 Jan. 2022
  • Blonde is just one attempt to disentangle that myth, what might have been, and the image of the woman that’s still impossible to ignore in our collective minds.
    — Paul Schrodt, Men's Health, 10 Oct. 2022
  • Can Skeets, can any of Skeets’s characters, disentangle eros from self-hatred?
    — Stephanie Burt, Harper's magazine, 28 Oct. 2019
  • The details of Bankman-Fried’s alleged fraud will likely take months, and potentially even longer, to disentangle.
    — Casey Michel, CNN, 15 Dec. 2022
  • Which may help crack down on attacks in the long run, but doesn't help disentangle things for victims who would rather move on as quickly and painlessly as possible.
    — Lily Hay Newman, Wired, 29 Oct. 2021
  • More than 150 years after kudzu was brought to America, the country is still trying to disentangle itself.
    — Quartz Staff, Quartz, 15 Nov. 2021
  • The region erupted, a tragedy wrapped within a tragedy, each impossible to disentangle from the other.
    — Star Tribune, 2 Oct. 2020
  • Phoenix fire crews assisted police to disentangle the body.
    — Ayano Nagaishi, azcentral, 19 Nov. 2019
  • To more fully understand the basics of itch and help disentangle it from pain, LaMotte and colleagues took a deep dive into the subtleties of the scratching behavior of mice.
    — Katherine Harmon Courage, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Nov. 2020
  • Removal of the driver required extensive dismantling of the vehicle to disentangle him from the truck cab, the village said.
    — Chuck Fieldman, chicagotribune.com, 29 Apr. 2021
  • For all its stated desire to disentangle itself from the Middle East, Washington has a hard time letting go.
    — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 16 Oct. 2020
  • Now, well into the 21st century, the challenge is how to disentangle and even dismantle those ideas while salvaging the arch as a cultural object.
    — Philip Kennicott, kansascity, 3 July 2018

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