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Eric's temporality begins to unravel, events from the near future seeping into the present.
Earlier this year, it had sat for weeks to unravel the riddle of the sinking.
It threatens to unravel a deal over the long-running pay dispute which led to an all-out strike.
One agency attempting to unravel the tangle is the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
In that moment, my cousin's image began to unravel all at once, like an unclenched ball of yarn.
As masquerades start to unravel and tanks roll into town Charlotte is forced to decide whose safety matters most.
Globular proteins partly unravel and become tangled, causing them to solidify, as when egg white sets.
I really thought we'd be able to use the Power of Fashion to unravel the Gordian Knot of human sexuality in this column.
However, the combination of metabolomics and transcriptomics will describe and unravel complex biological system relations.
His words were entirely unfunny and made perfect sense, though because of their condition they could not unravel what they actually meant.
David Newble attempts to unravel the mysteries behind local government finance.
It is, I think, true to say that many practising accountants no longer try to unravel the mysteries of the legislation by reading its provisions.
Then they open their eyes, and attempt to unravel the knot they've made, without unjoining their hands.
Howard was still sitting on his pallet, head halfway between his knees, trying to unravel a knot in the lace of his right boot.
Then, when the toe goes, you can just unravel the stitches from the end and re-knit the cap exactly as in your original pattern.
How selfish he must think I am, she thought irascibly, tugging her long slender fingers through her hair to unravel the lacquered knots.
He had to unravel the umbilical cord from round Niamh's neck, but the delivery was otherwise straightforward.
When the trail leads to a young man and his pregnant wife, things unravel like a thread in a cheap garment.
I had to unravel a logic puzzle, really, which was an interesting take on that, and a credit to John's ingenuity.
Some of the rewards of this novel lie in trying to unravel the puzzles Murakami sets the reader.
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Examples from Classical Literature
I never was meant to be a cryptographer or whatever you call those brainy fellows who unravel ciphers and things!
The underplot of the Glenallans, gloomy almost beyond endurance, is very ingeniously made to unravel the mystery of Lovel.
Strenuous, untiring efforts for years have been made to unravel this Lanier web.
What if to-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow brings no light to unravel this mystery?
How might she unravel this tangled skein and float to weal upon this sea of death?
I thought the mystery of the Zuni medicine man was the biggest mystery we should ever have to unravel, but this beats it.
Moreover, I beg your pardon, insomuch as I have been slow to unravel your meaning.
Here are hieroglyphics in abundance, but no Rosetta stone supplies the key by whose aid a Champollion can unravel the mystery.
When the feet wore out on socks and stockings, they would unravel them, save the good thread, and reknit the foot or toe or heel.
And, before you attempt to unravel that one, let me throw in a real googly.
You feel it your duty to unravel the secret of the percussion cap?
What the police have failed to fathom, how can you hope to unravel?
There's a mystery, but James Price, alias Pickles, 'ull unravel it.
Sometimes it seems to unravel, but at other times it almost burns with resplendence.
He took a stool at her feet, and set himself to unravel one of the tangled skeins.
It may be of some interest, or it may be trivial, in such a tangled skein as we are trying to unravel.
Noble Savages is a remarkable testament to an engineer's 35-year effort to unravel the complex working of an untouched human society.
It is impossible to unravel the intrigues that filled the court at Agra.
She has that sort of head that loves a hard knot to unravel!
Of all the tangled webs ever I essayed to unravel, this is the knottiest.
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