unweave
Americanverb (used with object)
Etymology
Origin of unweave
Example Sentences
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Now that narrative is starting to unweave itself.
From Salon • Jan. 14, 2025
“This is an opportunity for Seattle to be truly progressive, to unpack and unweave those racist and biased practices embedded in all institutions of power,” said Chelsea Hendrickson, Northern Arapaho and Cupiq.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 9, 2019
To unweave the plot before your eyes would require several assistants from the circulation department and a committee of subscribers to appear and certify that the narrative implements are without trickery.
From Time Magazine Archive
It took Penelope's nights to unweave the web of her days' weaving, and no sudden shears of untaught comprehension will serve to analyze those finer fabrics of a genius like Delacroix.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 74, December, 1863 by Various
And do not the nations pass their time in producing webs of Penelope, whose bloody threads they weave and unweave again with tears?
From Marie Antoinette and the Downfall of Royalty by Imbert de Saint-Amand, Arthur Léon, baron
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