as in bogs (down)
to place in conflict or difficulties
it seems everyone who was even remotely connected to the man became somehow embrangled in the scandal surrounding him
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In contrast, focusing on weaknesses traps people in a cycle of fixing deficiencies; over time, this limits performance by missing opportunities to generate truly forward-looking solutions.—
Gamze Acar Bayraktaroglu,
Forbes.com,
3 Sep. 2025 -
The utility has a fraught history with the California Coastal Commission, whose former senior scientist dubbed Diablo Canyon California’s largest marine predator because its intake system traps copious ocean larvae.—
Bloomberg,
Mercury News,
20 Aug. 2025
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“Embrangles.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/embrangles. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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