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untangling - definition and meaning
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verb untangle .
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Good luck Mr Obama in untangling this mess you inherited
Al-Maliki to visit White House later this month 2009
Bank of America's task in untangling its mortgage-foreclosure cases is in large part a legacy of the 2008 purchase of Countrywide Financial.
What's News: Business 2010
Good luck Mr Obama in untangling this mess you inherited johnnie
Al-Maliki to visit White House later this month 2009
Of course, as a copy editor nyself and having to spend large volumes of my adult life in untangling adult grammar of well-educated folks who ought to have gotten through graduate school knowing better (I do not possess such a thing myself, sigh ...) just to earn my bread, the bad grammar in Junie irritates me.
When good kids show bad judgment Roger Sutton 2007
The Duke had let down the masses of her blue-black hair, while Gene was engaged in untangling a refractory shoe-lace, when a little knock came at the door, and a moment after Marjorie entered.
Three Girls in a Flat Jean Yandell Loughborough 1892
So I am neck deep in untangling the final mess of my third book for its April 1 deadline (so very tempted to send a 1 page manuscript ending with “Rocks fall, everybody dies.” but I don’t think my editor would see the April Fools day humor in that), and I’ve been thinking about revelations.
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So I am neck deep in untangling the final mess of my third book for its April 1 deadline (so very tempted to send a 1 page manuscript ending with “Rocks fall, everybody dies.” but I don’t think my editor would see the April Fools day humor in that), and I’ve been thinking about revelations.
Is that supposed to happen? or How I fixed my first novel « 2010
He said that "untangling " the roles of clergy and government would focus discussion of same-sex marriage on civil rights rather than religion.
unknown title 2009
I fear we could spend the rest of our lives untangling Watson's romanticizations.
A three pipe problem Matthew Guerrieri 2009
He was busy untangling the hermeneutical threads in the horseflies and wasps of Canto Three.
Lance Mannion: 2009
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