untwined

verb

past tense of untwine
as in unraveled
to separate the various strands of untwined his shoelaces

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  1. unraveled
  2. disentangled
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  • Later on Saturday, Pezeshkian called on state TV for a revival of the interim deal, which was signed on June 17 but quickly unraveled amid disagreements over what had been agreed, especially ​on the status of the Strait of Hormuz.
    — Reuters, NBC news, 30 Aug. 2026
  • As curators unraveled the truth behind the images, the album soon made headlines and ignited a debate that reverberated far beyond the museum walls.
    — Greg Evans, Deadline, 27 Aug. 2026
Definition of unraveled
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  • Systems have to be disentangled, employees moved, contracts rewritten, and corporate functions recreated.
    — Jim Osman, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2026
  • To pretend that a cover is merely incidental is to ignore how much of literature is extraliterary, as if consciousness can be easily disentangled from the body.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 7 Aug. 2026
Definition of disentangled
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“Untwined.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/untwined. Accessed 2 Sep. 2026.

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