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- verb Present participle of
untwine .
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Examples
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It's about the very untwining of the ties that shelter civilization from the dominance of self-interest.
Marshall Fine: Movie Review: Carnage Marshall Fine 2011
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It's about the very untwining of the ties that shelter civilization from the dominance of self-interest.
Marshall Fine: Movie Review: Carnage Marshall Fine 2011
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It's about the very untwining of the ties that shelter civilization from the dominance of self-interest.
Marshall Fine: Movie Review: Carnage Marshall Fine 2011
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She looked off into the distance, fingers twining and untwining.
Best Friends Forever Jennifer Weiner 2009
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She looked off into the distance, fingers twining and untwining.
Best Friends Forever Jennifer Weiner 2009
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She looked off into the distance, fingers twining and untwining.
Best Friends Forever Jennifer Weiner 2009
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The twister feathered into a ropy funnel, its vortices untwining like the pulled threads of a string.
Storm Warning Nancy Mathis 2007
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I keep stirring up the recalcitrant fire, and when I throw my plastic coffee cup in with the new kindling it perches intact on a log for a strangely long time, as though uncertain what to do, until in a somehow reluctant, almost creaturely way it dents, collapses, and decomposes to a dark slime untwining itself on the stone hearth.
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After a moment, he tried to recall exactly what he had done in Tempre, the puzzlelike untwining of the Talent energy.
Soarer's Choice Modesitt, L. E. 2006
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The threads were continuing to move, twining and untwining, slithering, pulsating …
Dark Allies Peter David 1999
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