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Recent Examples of unknot
What at first presents itself as a survival horror, though, slowly unknots itself with twists and turns.
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Jessica Wang,
EW.com,
20 Sep. 2024
In nearly eight years, the Republican has appointed nearly 60 percent of the state’s 418 justices, installing judges who will oversee murder trials, reshape constitutional law, and unknot thorny civil litigation for years, if not decades, to come.
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Matt Stout,
BostonGlobe.com,
7 Dec. 2022
The idea is that a meditative approach can allow people to feel with resilience and unknot the ropework of repression without being flooded into despair.
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Hazlitt,
15 Sep. 2022
Being an open-ended query is an ideal state for an online girl, who will doubtless find a million other users hoping to provide her answer, helping to unknot her prettily furrowed brow.
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Philippa Snow,
The New Republic,
30 Aug. 2022
Acupressure mats can also improve circulation, unknot tight muscles, and improve sleep.
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Jasmine Washington,
Seventeen,
2 Aug. 2022
If someone comes up with an algorithm that can unknot any knot in what’s called polynomial time, that will put the Unknotting Problem fully to rest.
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Dave Linkletter,
Popular Mechanics,
22 July 2022
One of the issues the Supreme Court must unknot is whether Kennedy was praying as a private citizen or as an assistant coach and school employee.
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Editors,
USA TODAY,
25 Apr. 2022
Milwaukee's rally began quietly enough with a pair of Antetokounmpo free throws to unknot the score.
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Matt Velazquez,
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel,
4 Jan. 2020
Jessica Wang,
EW.com,
20 Sep. 2024
In nearly eight years, the Republican has appointed nearly 60 percent of the state’s 418 justices, installing judges who will oversee murder trials, reshape constitutional law, and unknot thorny civil litigation for years, if not decades, to come.
—
Matt Stout,
BostonGlobe.com,
7 Dec. 2022
The idea is that a meditative approach can allow people to feel with resilience and unknot the ropework of repression without being flooded into despair.
—
Hazlitt,
15 Sep. 2022
Being an open-ended query is an ideal state for an online girl, who will doubtless find a million other users hoping to provide her answer, helping to unknot her prettily furrowed brow.
—
Philippa Snow,
The New Republic,
30 Aug. 2022
Acupressure mats can also improve circulation, unknot tight muscles, and improve sleep.
—
Jasmine Washington,
Seventeen,
2 Aug. 2022
If someone comes up with an algorithm that can unknot any knot in what’s called polynomial time, that will put the Unknotting Problem fully to rest.
—
Dave Linkletter,
Popular Mechanics,
22 July 2022
One of the issues the Supreme Court must unknot is whether Kennedy was praying as a private citizen or as an assistant coach and school employee.
—
Editors,
USA TODAY,
25 Apr. 2022
Milwaukee's rally began quietly enough with a pair of Antetokounmpo free throws to unknot the score.
—
Matt Velazquez,
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel,
4 Jan. 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unknot
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One popular saying suggests a knot tied on a rainy day is harder to untie.
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There, by definition, each match has to have a winner and a loser, so any match that ends in a draw proceeds to two 15-minute periods of overtime, and, if that fails to untie the score, a penalty kick shootout.
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If one were to uncoil the long history of US engagement with Latin America, from the halls of Montezuma to the cells of CECOT, what was the most successful period?
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Young helped uncoil her and stretch her out.
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Congress should fully unwind the settlement as quickly as possible and then ensure that similar presidential self-dealing can't be attempted again.
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Emirates is giving you a new luxe space to unwind ahead of your time in the skies.
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More than one hiker has inadvertently gotten the oil on their fingers when unlacing a boot, then transferred it to their forehead.
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Usher followed — reportedly only after unlacing his skates first — and allegedly went to meet Brown & Co. behind some buses parked outside.
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Researchers have turned to technology to unroll the scrolls virtually since physically unfurling these fragile documents risks destroying them.
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Loosely roll dough around rolling pin and gently unroll it onto 9-inch pie plate, letting excess dough hang over edge.
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Well, Ariana seems to remember, whereas Hudson is determined to just undo the breakup and pretend like none of it ever happened.
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Disability organisations including The Arc and the Council for Exceptional Children have warned the change risks shifting special education from an education framework to a medical one, undoing decades of progress toward integration in schools.
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“Unknot.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unknot. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.
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