verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
try
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It came open at once, and she leaned in, trying to disentangle the unconscious woman from her seatbelt.
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Our concern here is not to try to disentangle New Liberalism from Fabian socialist thought.
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Let's try to disentangle and clarify some of them.
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The next few hours were spent in a daze while Lucy tried to disentangle the confusion in her bewildered mind.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Investigators had to disentangle Maxwell's complicated financial affairs.
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The balls of wool were all mixed up, and I couldn't disentangle them.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As these examples suggest, it becomes increasingly difficult to disentangle royal and ducal retinues.
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However, they can be disentangled sufficiently to allow our study of lexical semantics to proceed.
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In politics, it is seldom easy to disentangle what is right from what is handy.
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It is hard to disentangle propaganda from fantasy.
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One arm disentangled itself from the covers, her fingers curling indolently into the fine cotton of the quilt.
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Our concern here is not to try to disentangle New Liberalism from Fabian socialist thought.
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The reasons for these variations are difficult to disentangle .