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The Australians lost 4-0, coach Mickey Arthur fell out with some senior players over their refusal to do 'homework', and things were unravelling before the Ashes.

From BBC • Nov. 18, 2025

The six-member crew had little idea of how fast things were unravelling on the ground.

From BBC • Aug. 16, 2021

A more plausible explanation, which comes from our analysis of his personal diaries, is that aspects of his professional life were unravelling.

From Scientific American • Apr. 27, 2019

The first came at the start of Obama’s second term, when the promises of the Arab Spring were unravelling.

From The New Yorker • Jun. 5, 2018

For many months the Secret Service agents of the States, aided by the agents of other nations, were unravelling German plots and collecting data of treachery so irrefutable that it had to be accepted.

From Out To Win The Story of America in France by Dawson, Coningsby