as in tangle
something that catches and holds his life is greatly complicated by his romantic entanglements

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Recent Examples of entanglement The calf, which was estimated to be only a few months old, had a high risk of further entanglement because of its injury, inexperience and its feeding habitat being located in a heavily fished area, the organization said. Jennifer Rodriguez, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 17 July 2025 Trump literally just bombed Iran on behalf of Israel, despite campaigning on staying out of foreign entanglements except to foster peace. Rachel Marsden, Hartford Courant, 16 July 2025 As Venus irritates Pluto, exploring an office entanglement might not be a good idea! Usa Today, USA Today, 2 Aug. 2025 This is the perfect time to take bold steps toward resolving financial or emotional entanglements that have been holding you back. Valerie Mesa, People.com, 1 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for entanglement
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Noun
  • At the river’s edge, a quarter-mile-long Mitsubishi factory was a mountainous tangle of steel.
    Charles Pellegrino, Rolling Stone, 6 Aug. 2025
  • In contrast with the tangle of criminal cases which mostly stalled against Trump, Brazilian courts moved swiftly against Bolsonaro, threatening to end his political career and fracture his right-wing movement.
    Ricardo Brito, USA Today, 5 Aug. 2025
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  • One player who might not be a trap however is one of Pep Guardiola’s newest recruits: Tijjani Reijnders.
    Abdul Rehman, New York Times, 18 Aug. 2025
  • Opportunities without support are traps in disguise.
    Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2025
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  • But these products were accompanied by a labyrinth of names and uses: GPT-4o and GPT-4o mini and GPT-4.1; o1-mini and o1-pro; o3 and o3-pro and o4-mini; and so on.
    Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 7 Aug. 2025
  • For over two decades, search engines have served as ubiquitous routers directing billions of clickers through the labyrinth of the internet.
    Perry Carpenter, Forbes.com, 29 July 2025
Noun
  • Rich and famous people with much, much better things to do are willingly humiliating themselves on Hot Ones, a web show that invites celebrities to eat hot wings while answering interview questions and that sold last year for $82.5 million.
    Ellen Cushing, The Atlantic, 18 Aug. 2025
  • The discovery provides a new glimpse into the complex web of human evolution.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 16 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Other new attractions coming this fall will include a haunted maze, scare zone and live show.
    Sydney Sasser, Charlotte Observer, 11 Aug. 2025
  • The length of any single path could be unimaginably long and require taking millions or even billions of steps in the maze, says Sergei Gukov, the recent study’s senior author and a professor of mathematics at Caltech.
    Deni Ellis Béchard, Scientific American, 11 Aug. 2025

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“Entanglement.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/entanglement. Accessed 22 Aug. 2025.

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