Example Sentences

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“JWST enables a deep atmospheric characterisation of an exoplanet that does not have any counterpart in our Solar System, we are unravelling new worlds!”

From Science Daily • Nov. 15, 2023

Prices are unravelling after the central bank started to hike the cost of borrowing.

From Reuters • Jul. 28, 2023

Two ancient-DNA studies are unravelling the complex sequence of human migrations that left remote islands in the Pacific with a rare linguistic and genetic disconnect.

From Nature • Feb. 28, 2018

An inescapable feeling that Athletic Bilbao, the team that reached two finals and destroyed Manchester United at Old Trafford, are unravelling before his eyes.

From The Guardian • Aug. 28, 2012

"Global systemic risks are unravelling the defence barriers of ample financial liquidity and strong cyclical numbers, shifting investors' focus back towards underpriced structural risks in previously buoyant global risk markets," they said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 19, 2011