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disentangle | American Dictionary

disentangle
verb[ T ]
us/ˌdɪs·ənˈtæŋ·ɡəl/
to separate things that have become joined or confused:
It’s hard to disentangle the truth from all her lies.

Examples of disentangle

disentangle
These public opinion experiments offer a possible way to disentangle the effect of prejudice from the effect of group competition and conflict on racial-political attitudes.
The problem is to disentangle behavioral non-compliance from a failure to be captured by language stimuli.
Rather than attempting to disentangle ideology from interests, the strategy adopted here is to examine the overlap between these two causal agents.
To disentangle the incentives for activist policy we again derive optimal monetary policy strategies under passive and active learning.
To understand developmental pathways, we will need to disentangle complex interaction effects among early temperament predispositions, socialization processes, relationships, and culture.
Few studies have attempted to disentangle the influence of phonotactic probability from that of neighbourhood density in the acquisition of expressive vocabulary.
This emphasizes that the mélange contains a range of oceanic, marginal and platformrelated units which require careful study to disentangle.
Second, causes and effects of social capital as a feature of communities were not disentangled, giving rise to much circular reasoning.
A practical disadvantage is that it is not available for many countries and that private and public expenditures may have to be disentangled.
We cannot disentangle the effects here, but this malapportionment undoubtedly leads to some over-attribution of disproportionality.
Given the nature of bodily appearance, however, it was impossible to disentangle the biological and social influences.
This branch of the literature is vast, but suffers from the criticism that the direct and indirect effects of variables cannot be disentangled.
Prospective studies will be needed to disentangle the temporal relationship between severe childhood obesity and family overeating.
Furthermore, the analysis lacked the data required to disentangle the two effects by using, for instance, instrumental variable estimation techniques.
However, relatively little work has been done to disentangle which aspects of the local campaign are effective, and which are not.
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