disentangle
verb (used with or without object)
to free or become free from entanglement; untangle; extricate (often followed byfrom ).
has disentangled
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present perfectof disentangle (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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A study published today in the journal Cell Reports has disentangled the mechanisms behind one of the ways cancer cells develop resistance to targeted therapy.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 12, 2024
For others, a fundamental shift in the way business is conducted has disentangled them from city life entirely.
From BBC ● Feb. 24, 2021
Science, for the meantime at least, has disentangled herself from her former materialism, and a nobly ideal and spiritual view of science has come again.
From Among Famous Books by John Kelman
He has disentangled the confusion of the passage, and I have inserted his emendation in the text.
From Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies by Arthur Sherbo
So I resolved to wind on my little thread of life day by day, and undo one little knot after another, until now, indeed, the skein has disentangled itself.
From Chronicles of the Schonberg-Cotta Family by Elizabeth Rundle Charles
