enmesh
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catch up, ensnare, ensnarl, entangle, entoil, entrap, mesh, net, snare, tangle, trap
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The October vote is the first presidential election following a sprawling graft probe known as Operation Car Wash that has enmeshed most of Brazil’s political leadership. — Paulo Trevisani, WSJ, "Wide Open Election Season Kicks Off in Scandal-Plagued Brazil," 20 July 2018 The book’s heartbreaking climax doesn’t make the questions or answers any easier to swallow, and Mr. Orange leaves the reader enmeshed and hypnotized. — WSJ, "Who Read What in 2018: Actors and Entertainers," 10 Dec. 2018 So if the first year and a half of the Trump administration has been enmeshed in confusion and chaos, QAnon is the conspiratorial response: Everything is fine. — Jane Coaston, Vox, "#QAnon, the scarily popular pro-Trump conspiracy theory, explained," 1 Aug. 2018 Dehlin started to doubt, and his life, enmeshed so tightly in the church, began to dissolve. — Sarah Scoles, Longreads, "Meet the New Mormons," 8 June 2018 Civilians have been enmeshed over the years in the conflict which has killed over 10,000, crippled the country's health system and pushed it to the brink of famine. — Ahmed Al-haj And Menna Zaki, Fox News, "Yemen's Shiite rebels welcome UN call for Saudi strike probe," 10 Aug. 2018 Even today, Flame Tokay is enmeshed in Lodi’s identity: One local school is called Tokay High School; the rival institution, Lodi High, calls its athletic teams the Flames. — Esther Mobley, San Francisco Chronicle, "Why is star winemaker Tegan Passalacqua building a winery in Lodi?," 20 May 2018 Josh Raffel, a White House spokesman who has been deeply enmeshed in contacts with Israel, announced his resignation last week. — Noga Tarnopolsky, latimes.com, "Netanyahu begins visit to U.S., putting aside personal and political troubles at home," 5 Mar. 2018 They are enmeshed in a complex relationship that will continue indefinitely. — Andrew Kennedy, Washington Post, "Trump takes aim at China’s tech sector. That could hurt U.S. innovation.," 11 June 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'enmesh.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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