UNRAVELED Synonyms: 66 Similar and Opposite Words

unraveled

verb

past tense of unravel

as in frayed

to separate the various strands of it took us forever to unravel the jumbled mass of Christmas tree lights

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as in solved

to find an answer for through reasoning unraveled the mystery

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Recent Examples of unraveled Before leaving his post in February 2025, Sams saw parts of his work unraveled by the current administration. — ABC News, 22 Oct. 2026 How Amazon’s plan unraveled In February, GW president Ellen Granberg announced the university had sold the campus, but did not initially identify the buyer or disclose the purchase price. — Joshua Hong, Fortune, 21 Oct. 2026 More protests unraveled in Spain, Belgium and Portugal over the past few weeks, with tensions escalating since the weekend. — Laure Guilbault, Vogue, 20 Oct. 2026 Last season, Steichen could point to Daniel Jones' season-ending Achilles tear in Week 14 last year as the Colts' season unraveled. — Dan Zaksheske Outkick, FOXNews.com, 19 Oct. 2026 Using data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have unraveled some of the atmospheric secrets of a bizarre, blisteringly hot world that has the consistency of marshmallow. — Robert Lea, Space.com, 16 Oct. 2026 Rice said when Perera was released from the hospital, the working relationship unraveled as well as the romantic one. — Joe Rubin, Sacbee.com, 8 Oct. 2026 After his mother’s death in 1990, Cooper’s relationship with his father unraveled, and he was soon drawn to the music he’d been taught to avoid. — Steve Appleford, SPIN, 8 Oct. 2026 By then, Cecchi Gori’s business empire—which included the Fiorentina soccer club—had unraveled in spectacular fashion, ending in bankruptcy and convictions for financial crimes. — Mattia Ferraresi, Air Mail, 3 Oct. 2026

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The party was a reminder of the close cross border ties that are frayed but so far not broken by the visa crackdown.

— Angela Kocherga, NPR, 26 Oct. 2026
Francisco Luna, 45, the owner of an auto repair shop, said coexistence has been frayed.

— ABC News, ABC News, 12 Oct. 2026

Definition of frayed

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The crows solved the task the same way primates do, using the same mathematical logic despite having a very different brain structure.

— Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 23 Oct. 2026
So there’s a huge amount of that which was solved with lots of different trickery, and then some VFX.

— K.J. Yossman, Variety, 23 Oct. 2026

Definition of solved

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Purdue cut its deficit to 10 with a three-point play from former UConn target Caden Pierce three minutes into the second half, but Demary answered with his own physical finish, plus a free throw, at the other end.

— Joe Arruda, Hartford Courant, 28 Oct. 2026
For about 30 minutes, Stacy Garrity answered every question KDKA-TV's Josh Taylor asked her about her campaign for governor, including one concerning a political ad about incumbent Josh Shapiro.

— Josh Taylor, CBS News, 27 Oct. 2026

Definition of answered

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The researchers discovered that the nuclear spin could be flipped even when the electron and nuclear spins were largely disentangled.

— Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 28 Oct. 2026
Pawlikowski’s mother and father, also named Zula and Wiktor, whose unmanageable love had kept them tangled and disentangled for decades, took their own lives in 1989, as the Cold War that had cast its chill upon their time was beginning to thaw.

— Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2026

Definition of disentangled

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Other forum participants reported that subsequent firmware updates resolved their infections.

— Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 23 Oct. 2026
The Commissary is raising money and crowdsourcing to help cover lawyers' costs and have emergency funding until the dispute is resolved.

— Libby Smith, CBS News, 22 Oct. 2026

Definition of resolved

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Have you ever been locked out of an account while using a VPN, or found a solution that smoothed things out?

— Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 20 Oct. 2026
Facilities that once smoothed a few weeks of timing now sometimes carry a portfolio for months, occasionally across an entire fundraising cycle.

— Peter Doyle, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2026

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