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- verb Present participle of
untangle .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the act of releasing from a snarled or tangled condition
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Examples
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Good luck Mr Obama in untangling this mess you inherited
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Bank of America's task in untangling its mortgage-foreclosure cases is in large part a legacy of the 2008 purchase of Countrywide Financial.
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Good luck Mr Obama in untangling this mess you inherited johnnie
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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.
When good kids show bad judgment Roger Sutton 2007
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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.
Three Girls in a Flat Jean Yandell Loughborough 1892
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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.
2010 March « 2010
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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.
Is that supposed to happen? or How I fixed my first novel « 2010
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He said that "untangling" the roles of clergy and government would focus discussion of same-sex marriage on civil rights rather than religion.
unknown title 2009
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I fear we could spend the rest of our lives untangling Watson's romanticizations.
A three pipe problem Matthew Guerrieri 2009
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He was busy untangling the hermeneutical threads in the horseflies and wasps of Canto Three.
Lance Mannion: 2009
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