cat's cradles

noun

plural of cat's cradle
as in labyrinths

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  1. labyrinths
  2. mazes
  3. tangles
  4. snarls
Noun
  • And who knows if, with chef Mario Carbone, part of those labyrinths will be repurposed into wineries for fine wines.
    — Marzio G. Mian, Vanity Fair, 16 June 2026
  • Laborious yet lithe lads and lasses have loyally leapt to luminate the lexical labyrinths of logic locking the lucrative lotto, longing to lure the lavish luxury lying latently in local landmarks.
    — Jared Kaufman, Twin Cities, 28 Jan. 2026
Definition of labyrinths
Noun
  • The book features coloring pages, puzzles, mazes, more than 500 stickers and other activities.
    — Kimberly Nordyke, HollywoodReporter, 28 Oct. 2026
  • Slime molds, for example, can find efficient routes through mazes.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 13 Oct. 2026
Definition of mazes
Noun
  • Both amyloid beta and tau are normally present in healthy brains; the plaques and tangles are abnormal aggregations of these molecules.
    — Manvir Singh, New Yorker, 2 Nov. 2026
  • The shampoo didn’t strip the tester’s already-dry hair, and a two-minute conditioner left her tangles smooth enough to finger-comb.
    — Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, Kansas City Star, 21 Oct. 2026
Definition of tangles
Noun
  • To get to Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez, take the metro (look for the brown Metro Line 9) to avoid getting entangled in traffic snarls.
    — Alan Chazaro, Condé Nast Traveler, 26 Oct. 2026
  • Around her, Youth builds an impressively frantic web of relationships and plot snarls.
    — Kathryn VanArendonk, Vulture, 18 Sep. 2026
Definition of snarls
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