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Meanings of untangling in English
Portuguese
desenrascanço Spanish
desenredo Usage of untangling in English
1
Huge resources were pumped into untangling the financial web of Greenland Securities.
2
She combed her fingers through her clotted hair, untangling the greasy strands.
3
He was untangling a mess of threads in one of the looms.
4
Do you struggle with untangling your Christmas decorations every single year?
5
But untangling bureaucracy built up over decades may not be easy.
6
She was twisting and untangling her fingers in a dumb agony.
7
By then the dogs'd been knocked apart and the crowd was untangling itself.
8
There was little enough to go on in untangling her mystery.
9
A rat's nest was growing in Southeast Asia that already seemed beyond untangling.
10
A baby's arms that moved listlessly, tangling and untangling in her lank hair.
11
We spoke for several more minutes, untangling any remaining knots of weirdness between us.
12
Gretchen secured Tutu and went to work untangling the puppies.
13
Once more things were badly mixed, and the untangling process had to be repeated.
14
A woman stood at one of these tables untangling a skein of red yarn.
15
Like a sedative, it worked into her body, into her muscles, untangling the tension.
16
Their language had needed untangling for a good many years.
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Frequent collocations
Untangling through the time
Untangling across language varieties
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