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as in tangle
something that catches and holds
he was caught in the web of branches she was trapped by her own web of lies
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as in ambush
a device or scheme for capturing another by surprise
an ingenious web that was spun by undercover agents going after drug dealers
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Recent Examples of web
Crumley, who played a key role in this web of corruption, was one of more than a dozen officers ousted or suspended when the story broke that summer — including the chief of police.
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Nick Woltman, Twin Cities, 28 June 2025
Our primary overall benchmark, UL's PCMark 10, puts a system through its paces in productivity apps ranging from web browsing to word processing and spreadsheet work.
—PC Magazine, 27 June 2025
Over the past year, Google has transformed its web search experience with AI, driving toward a zero-click experience.
—ArsTechnica, 26 June 2025
Our micro-scale community web has resulted in strong relationships, new businesses, cleaner streets, a sense of safety and the ability to rally for greater causes than any of us could do alone.
—Anastasia G McAteer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 June 2025
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Nick Woltman, Twin Cities, 28 June 2025
Our primary overall benchmark, UL's PCMark 10, puts a system through its paces in productivity apps ranging from web browsing to word processing and spreadsheet work.
—PC Magazine, 27 June 2025
Over the past year, Google has transformed its web search experience with AI, driving toward a zero-click experience.
—ArsTechnica, 26 June 2025
Our micro-scale community web has resulted in strong relationships, new businesses, cleaner streets, a sense of safety and the ability to rally for greater causes than any of us could do alone.
—Anastasia G McAteer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for web
Noun
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About a dozen streets on it bore names; the rest was a tangle of lines.—
The New York Times,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
15 June 2025
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That development was paused amid a tangle of lawsuits in 2023 and 2024, but is moving forward after the cases were resolved in November and March.—
Nick Rosenberger,
Idaho Statesman,
4 June 2025
Noun
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She was frequently caught short by the playwright’s winking ambush.—
Han Ong,
New Yorker,
22 June 2025
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The new film continues the saga with a fresh high-stakes adventure, in which the fearsome Countess of Gral ambushes Captain Sabertooth’s ship, stealing a sacred figurehead and kidnapping young crewmate Pinky.—
Melanie Goodfellow,
Deadline,
10 June 2025
Noun
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With a real-time net worth of $11.5 billion, Sarath is among the wealthiest in Thailand.—
Phisanu Phromchanya,
Forbes.com,
26 June 2025
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These include misleading addresses like panel spectrum net and spectrum ticket net.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
25 June 2025
Noun
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Wyoming’s wildlife agency, for example, traps and relocates conflict bears (or kills problem bears if allowed by the Fish and Wildlife Service), knocks on doors to calm nervous landowners, hands out bear spray, and reminds campers not to cook chili in their tents.—
Christine Peterson,
Vox,
27 June 2025
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The pricing trap: Most service businesses bill by the hour.—
Preston Fore,
Fortune,
27 June 2025
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Each insurance company seems to have its own labyrinth of portals and billing procedures.—
Paulina Wierzbicka,
Forbes.com,
26 June 2025
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Deep beneath the Zagros Mountains in central Iran, in a labyrinth of fortified tunnels outside the city of Natanz, centrifuges spun at speeds too fast for the eye to track.—
Nik Popli,
Time,
19 June 2025
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The Las Vegas location will open with four haunted mazes.—
Dewayne Bevil,
The Orlando Sentinel,
26 June 2025
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The locations are based on Universal’s successful Halloween Horror Nights in Florida and California, which feature elaborate haunted houses and mazes.—
Alex Weprin,
HollywoodReporter,
26 June 2025
Noun
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Hers is a direct critique of the banalities of global capitalism and its entanglement with labor and production, told through a body of work that is at once familiar yet strange, moving between the real and the fictional to fascinating and powerful effect.—
Nargess Banks,
Forbes.com,
25 June 2025
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Their fearlessness is grounded in training and in seeing the Middle East as a limited operation in the future, after more than two decades of divisive and protracted entanglements — in Afghanistan, Iraq and beyond — which Trump had campaigned on ending.—
Adam Carlson,
People.com,
25 June 2025
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There are no pairs of tidily poetic contradictions, but a morass of inner conflict, uncertainty, pain, and relief.—
Paul A. Thompson,
Pitchfork,
27 June 2025
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Tax administration is often written off as a bureaucratic morass—a neutral, technocratic function made necessary by the modern state but best kept as small as possible.—
Andrew Leahey,
Forbes.com,
25 June 2025
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“Web.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/web. Accessed 5 Jul. 2025.
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