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  • verb Present participle of disentangle.

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Examples

  • Particularly hard hit will be the engineering, electrical and electronics sectors, which face an enormous technical problem in disentangling the hotch-potch of metric and non-metric units that govern their production.

    In the grip of its metric obsession Richard 2006

  • I would have welcomed an afterword disentangling the fact from the fiction; but the lack of scholarly footnotes did nothing to detract from my enjoyment.

    The Lambs of London: Summary and book reviews of The Lambs of London by Peter Ackroyd. 2006

  • Pitt, 46, and Jolie, 34 have stayed silent over claims that Los Angeles divorce attorney Sorrel Trope, is "disentangling" their finances before a break-up and are also mum on Jolie involved in an affair with a voice coach of her latest spy thriller 'Salt'.

    Hindustan Times News Feeds 'Views' 2010

  • Pitt, 46, and Jolie, 34 have stayed silent over claims that Los Angeles divorce attorney Sorrel Trope, is "disentangling" their finances before a break-up and are also mum on Jolie involved in an affair with a voice coach of her latest spy thriller 'Salt'.

    Hindustan Times News Feeds 'Views' 2010

  • Pitt, 46, and Jolie, 34 have stayed silent over claims that Los Angeles divorce attorney Sorrel Trope, is "disentangling" their finances before a break-up and are also mum on Jolie involved in an affair with a voice coach of her latest spy thriller 'Salt'.

    Hindustan Times News Feeds 'Views' 2010

  • New Turkish foreign policies such as disentangling historic conflicts with surrounding countries have started to bear fruit.

    The Daily Star > News Feed 2009

  • Whittling down their sprawling franchises to reduce their importance, or disentangling, is another story.

    Improve, Don't Dismantle Big Banks 2011

  • Coie and his colleagues devised an ingenious method for disentangling the chicken-egg problem of a child and her social group.

    Red Flags or Red Herrings? Susan Engel 2011

  • Coie and his colleagues devised an ingenious method for disentangling the chicken-egg problem of a child and her social group.

    Red Flags or Red Herrings? Susan Engel 2011

  • And agnostics on the subject realized that while disentangling nature and nurture was extremely difficult, the precise mechanism mattered surprisingly little.

    Dysculturation?, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

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