as in tangle
something that catches and holds
the representative was forced to resign after getting caught in a noose of lies and corruption
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Recent Examples of noose
According to the filing, the system provided noose-tying instructions, romanticized suicide, and discouraged seeking help.
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Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 17 Sep. 2025
Bags full of nooses had already been found.
—Robin Yassin-Kassab, Time, 17 Sep. 2025
Despite specifying various antics with pills, a belt-as-noose, and a gun, Cloud has given him no real demons to explore.
—Sara Holdren, Vulture, 10 Sep. 2025
In 2019, Smollett, who is Black and gay, claimed that he was attacked by two men who yelled racist and homophobic slurs at him, poured bleach on him and wrapped a noose around his neck.
—Lea Veloso, StyleCaster, 22 Aug. 2025
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Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 17 Sep. 2025
Bags full of nooses had already been found.
—Robin Yassin-Kassab, Time, 17 Sep. 2025
Despite specifying various antics with pills, a belt-as-noose, and a gun, Cloud has given him no real demons to explore.
—Sara Holdren, Vulture, 10 Sep. 2025
In 2019, Smollett, who is Black and gay, claimed that he was attacked by two men who yelled racist and homophobic slurs at him, poured bleach on him and wrapped a noose around his neck.
—Lea Veloso, StyleCaster, 22 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for noose
Noun
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The winds send stage trusses collapsing in a tangle of steel and spotlights as firefighters race to rescue fans and production crew members trapped.—
Bryan West,
Nashville Tennessean,
18 Oct. 2025
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This bureaucratic tangle is so extreme that many European manufacturers are simply giving up.—
Veronique De Rugy,
Oc Register,
17 Oct. 2025
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GahnSmith is joined by Jay Frandsen, a Parks ecosystem scientist conducting water surveys and checking camera traps along the journey.—
Chloe Berge,
AFAR Media,
15 Oct. 2025
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Even experienced users can fall for these traps.—
Atharva Gosavi,
Interesting Engineering,
14 Oct. 2025
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Unfortunately, during his journey, Vasi encountered a wire snare trap, which ended up clamped around his back leg in September 2019.—
Kelli Bender,
PEOPLE,
11 Oct. 2025
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Christie Jourdain is band leader and snare drummer for The Original Pinettes, the city’s first all-female brass band that formed in 1991.—
Jenny Adams,
CNN Money,
5 Oct. 2025
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Not long ago, Ma sent us recommendations for three books that have contributed to his thinking on this theme—books that interrogate timeless aspects of human nature, our complex relationships to one another, and our entanglement with the natural world.—
The New Yorker,
New Yorker,
15 Oct. 2025
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In a time defined by human-machine entanglement, several works reimagine our relationships with artificial intelligence, exposing its quiet manipulations, its quickness to radicalize, and its capacity for introspection.—
Matthew Carey,
Deadline,
14 Oct. 2025
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The Agua Hedionda Lagoon Foundation is also part of this Haunted Corn Maze, which turns the strawberry fields into a terrifying labyrinth.—
Abby Hamblin,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
16 Oct. 2025
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Gurba constructs a labyrinth of language where California poppies, childhood witchcraft and feminist rage bloom side by side.—
Ana Cristina Frías Cabrera,
USA Today,
8 Oct. 2025
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First Brands had a web of complex debt agreements with a slew of lenders and investment funds globally.—
Michael Wayland,
CNBC,
20 Oct. 2025
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The film picks up after No Way Home ended on a massive reset for the titular web-slinging Peter Parker (Holland), as he was erased from everyone's minds, including that of his friends and loved ones.—
Mekishana Pierre,
Entertainment Weekly,
20 Oct. 2025
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The trick works too on Dratch, who once feared monsters under her bed, and Oswalt, who jokes about quicksand being his biggest worry.—
Dave Quinn,
PEOPLE,
29 Sep. 2025
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The novel is set in 1984, but the plot keeps sliding backward into the sixties, in woozy reveries that engulf Zoyd like quicksand.—
Justin Chang,
New Yorker,
26 Sep. 2025
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Following a young woman navigating life after growing up in an orphanage, the film transforms her shrinking apartment into a dreamlike maze of memory and loss, using striking visual metaphors to explore belonging, self-worth, and the fragile hope of starting over.—
Essie Assibu,
Variety,
17 Oct. 2025
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The island’s relaxed energy carries throughout the resort's maze of 29 villas, sloping down a hill towards the beach.—
Katie Lockhart,
Travel + Leisure,
17 Oct. 2025
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“Noose.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/noose. Accessed 23 Oct. 2025.
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