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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Emily’s Sassy Lime might be fairly obscure, but its brief tangle with underground rock stardom is central to the exhibit’s exploration of teen-age self-fashioning.
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Hua Hsu, New Yorker, 13 Dec. 2025
Upon deploying their main parachute, it got tangled with the remains of the reserve chute, according to the report.
—Mike Snider, USA Today, 13 Dec. 2025
Chicago's Connor Murphy also tangled with the Blues' Dylan Holloway in the second meeting this season of the longtime rivals.
—CBS News, 13 Dec. 2025
Inside, everything has its own little home, so earrings don’t tangle with bracelets mid-flight.
—Chaise Sanders, Travel + Leisure, 3 Dec. 2025
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Hua Hsu, New Yorker, 13 Dec. 2025
Upon deploying their main parachute, it got tangled with the remains of the reserve chute, according to the report.
—Mike Snider, USA Today, 13 Dec. 2025
Chicago's Connor Murphy also tangled with the Blues' Dylan Holloway in the second meeting this season of the longtime rivals.
—CBS News, 13 Dec. 2025
Inside, everything has its own little home, so earrings don’t tangle with bracelets mid-flight.
—Chaise Sanders, Travel + Leisure, 3 Dec. 2025
See All Example Sentences for tangle with
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“Tangle with.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tangle%20with. Accessed 18 Dec. 2025.
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