tangle with
phrasal verb
tangled with; tangling with; tangles with
informal
: to fight or argue with (someone or something)
He's not someone I would want to tangle with.
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Kansas City Royals star Salvador Perez tangled with an old adversary Saturday afternoon against the Toronto Blue Jays.
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Kansas City Star, 2 Aug. 2025
But the company has tangled with the FAA, which last year proposed fining it $633,000 for violations related to two of its launches.
—ArsTechnica, 22 July 2025
Newsom, a Democrat who has increasingly tangled with Trump over issues from immigration to wildfire, said the state would fight the funding reversal.
—Trevor Hughes, USA Today, 19 July 2025
Dozens of uprooted trees tangled with clothes and debris stretched across the rocky expanse between houses and river.
—Matthew Odam, Austin American Statesman, 15 July 2025
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Kansas City Star, 2 Aug. 2025
But the company has tangled with the FAA, which last year proposed fining it $633,000 for violations related to two of its launches.
—ArsTechnica, 22 July 2025
Newsom, a Democrat who has increasingly tangled with Trump over issues from immigration to wildfire, said the state would fight the funding reversal.
—Trevor Hughes, USA Today, 19 July 2025
Dozens of uprooted trees tangled with clothes and debris stretched across the rocky expanse between houses and river.
—Matthew Odam, Austin American Statesman, 15 July 2025
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“Tangle with.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tangle%20with. Accessed 19 Aug. 2025.
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