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unravel

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To disentangle; to disengage or separate the threads of; as, to unravel a stocking.

Hence, to clear from complication or difficulty; to unfold; to solve; as, to unravel a plot.

To separate the connected or united parts of; to throw into disorder; to confuse.

To become unraveled, in any sense.

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can you unravel the mystery? Source: Internet

the sweater unraveled Source: Internet

unravel the thread Source: Internet

A dark thriller set in Manchester, follows the story of a single mother caught up in a fraudulent cold call scam that threatens to unravel her life. Source: Internet

And more succinctly, in a footnote, about the "part of producing the web of an intricate story", he wrote: It is indeed easier to unravel a single thread an incident, a name, a motive than to trace the history of any picture defined by many threads. Source: Internet

Another compression strategy is to "unravel" the data structure into a single byte array. citation This approach eliminates the need for node pointers, substantially reducing the memory requirements. Source: Internet

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