EMBRANGLING Synonyms: 17 Similar and Opposite Words

embrangling

verb

present participle of embrangle

as in trapping

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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Abhishek Menon, the study’s corresponding author and a graduate student, said solving the engineering challenges associated with heavier ions could also simplify trapping lighter species.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 13 Oct. 2026
The draft management plan, on which the department seeks comment, proposes lifting the moratorium on hunting or trapping bobcats.

— Don Sweeney, Sacbee.com, 8 Oct. 2026

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Temperatures in the area approached or exceeded triple digits Wednesday, amid a punishing heat wave that is broiling Southern California.

— Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2026
Dozens of young people, including a twenty-one-year-old professional footballer, drowned while seeking relief in open water; three French children died in broiling cars.

— Eric Klinenberg, New Yorker, 17 Aug. 2026

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Since then, the conflict has taken on an ethnic as well as an international dimension, embroiling Sudan’s neighbors but also the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Russia, Ukraine and Iran.

— Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 8 Sep. 2026
Matti Friedman, a former Associated Press reporter in the Middle East, has observed that in the conflicts embroiling Israel and diaspora Jewry, many major Western media institutions have recast themselves as participants instead of observers.

— David Frum, The Atlantic, 21 May 2026

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