untangling
IPA: ʌntˈæŋɫɪŋ
noun
- the act of releasing from a snarled or tangled condition
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Examples of "untangling" in Sentences
- Good luck Mr Obama in untangling this mess you inherited
- Good luck Mr Obama in untangling this mess you inherited johnnie
- I fear we could spend the rest of our lives untangling Watson's romanticizations.
- He was busy untangling the hermeneutical threads in the horseflies and wasps of Canto Three.
- Bank of America's task in untangling its mortgage-foreclosure cases is in large part a legacy of the 2008 purchase of Countrywide Financial.
- He said that "untangling" the roles of clergy and government would focus discussion of same-sex marriage on civil rights rather than religion.
- The Duke had let down the masses of her blue-black hair, while Gene was engaged in untangling a refractory shoe-lace, when a little knock came at the door, and a moment after Marjorie entered.
- So I am neck deep in untangling the final mess of my third book for its April 1 deadline (so very tempted to send a 1 page manuscript ending with “Rocks fall, everybody dies.” but I don’t think my editor would see the April Fools day humor in that), and I’ve been thinking about revelations.
- Of course, as a copy editor nyself and having to spend large volumes of my adult life in untangling adult grammar of well-educated folks who ought to have gotten through graduate school knowing better (I do not possess such a thing myself, sigh ...) just to earn my bread, the bad grammar in Junie irritates me.
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