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• v  release from entanglement of difficulty
• v  extricate from entanglement
  Can you disentangle the cord?
• v  free from involvement or entanglement
  How can I disentangle myself from her personal affairs?
• v  separate the tangles of
• v  smoothen and neaten with or as with a comb

• Next day Ford struggled to disentangle himself, telling a large crowd of students at the University of Southern California: "It is our policy to use every peaceful means to .
• Now they seem unable or unwilling to disentangle themselves from the complex network of al-Qaeda and jihad ist icon, Osama bin Laden.
• Three years and about $100,000 in child support and legal fees later, Smith, 46, managed to disentangle himself from any responsibilities for the girl, and says he walked out of .

• extricate
• untangle
• disencumber
• unsnarl
• straighten out
• disinvolve
• disembroil
• unwind
• comb
• comb out

• entangle
• snarl

News & Articles

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• E. J. Dionne: Burke's lessons for modern GOP
  Let's praise a struggling conservative reform movement seeking to disentangle the right's cause from extremism and to make its ideas more compelling to a younger and broader swath of Americans.
  July 2, 2013 - The Philadelphia Inquirer
• Dionne: The original conservative reformer
  WASHINGTON -- Let’s praise a struggling conservative reform movement seeking to disentangle the right’s cause from extremism and to make its ideas more compelling to a younger and broader swath of Americans.
  July 1, 2013 - The Salt Lake Tribune
• The original conservative reformer - DIONNE
  WASHINGTON -- Let's praise a struggling conservative reform movement seeking to disentangle the right's cause from extremism and to make its ideas more compelling to a younger and broader swath of Americans.
  July 1, 2013 - The Oakland Press

Quotes

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• Jean-Claude Trichet in Reuters
  There is a need to disentangle what might be called 'self-sustainable stabilisation' from that which is purely due to the unprecedented programmes of official support for the financial system,Trichet said in a speech to a conference of the...
• Richard Keen in Glasgow Daily Record
  Keen told the hearing: "At the end of the day, this jury will have to disentangle from Mr Burrell's evidence that which is truth, that which has historical, objective foundation and that which is mere opinion and perhaps untruth."
• George Church in Forbes
  There's another G-Zero run coming up in December, and that will help us to try to disentangle this combination of the contribution to the charge and the magnetization. So that will give us one more measurement that will allow us to look at those... Beck http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beck&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNHp-xxwI42k70dVnvmziSzWbXXVpQ PhysOrg.com http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.physorg.com/news4615.html&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNHzDCP2hmgK_6Lg4yL4zGNejsSvEw Jun 20, 2005 28356 37275 disentangled These things don't get immediately disentangled," says Church, who worked in the medical biotech business as a researcher in the early days of Biogen, now part of Biogen Idec (nasdaq: BIIB - news - people ), before coming to Harvard. "In any...