as in to tangle
to place in conflict or difficulties
the town has been embroiled in controversy over the building of the huge shopping mall
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Recent Examples of embroil
The ruling came after the university became embroiled in a controversy between two warring factions in the board of trustees over the legality of the appointment of McCormick as president.
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Raisa Habersham, Miami Herald, 8 Sep. 2025
This has been done for those who are embroiled with the use of the Internet, or the use of their smartphone, and seems to equally apply to AI usage.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 7 Sep. 2025
Shrewd dealmaker Anutin has been a mainstay in Thai politics throughout years of turmoil, positioning his Bhumjaithai party strategically between warring elites embroiled in an intractable power struggle and guaranteeing its place in a succession of coalition governments.
—Panarat Thepgumpanat, USA Today, 5 Sep. 2025
Congress has been embroiled in the Epstein saga since lawmakers returned to the Capitol on Tuesday from a month-long recess.
—Elizabeth Crisp, The Hill, 3 Sep. 2025
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Raisa Habersham, Miami Herald, 8 Sep. 2025
This has been done for those who are embroiled with the use of the Internet, or the use of their smartphone, and seems to equally apply to AI usage.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 7 Sep. 2025
Shrewd dealmaker Anutin has been a mainstay in Thai politics throughout years of turmoil, positioning his Bhumjaithai party strategically between warring elites embroiled in an intractable power struggle and guaranteeing its place in a succession of coalition governments.
—Panarat Thepgumpanat, USA Today, 5 Sep. 2025
Congress has been embroiled in the Epstein saga since lawmakers returned to the Capitol on Tuesday from a month-long recess.
—Elizabeth Crisp, The Hill, 3 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for embroil
Verb
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Tatum plays Jeffrey Manchester, a veteran tangled haplessly up in good intentions and a life of petty crime.—
Taylor Antrim,
Vogue,
12 Sep. 2025
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He got tangled up in a rundown with two other future Hall of Famers, George Kell and Luis Aparicio.—
Jon Paul Hoornstra,
MSNBC Newsweek,
12 Sep. 2025
Verb
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The last is dumping iron dust into the Southern Ocean to provoke phytoplankton blooms that would suck heat-trapping carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, a move that set off a backlash when an American entrepreneur tried it off Canada in 2012.—
Alec Luhn,
Scientific American,
11 Sep. 2025
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Flip that switch, and suddenly every market becomes accessible, and good ideas trapped behind a language wall get unleashed.—
Liz Hoffman,
semafor.com,
11 Sep. 2025
Verb
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This makes broiling ideal for finishing dishes with a golden crust or crisp exterior.—
Katie Rosenhouse,
Southern Living,
14 Sep. 2025
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Bone-in Pork Chops Pork provides about half as much zinc as beef, When broiled, a 3-ounce serving of bone-in pork chops will give you 1.9 mg of zinc.1 7.—
Angelica Bottaro,
Verywell Health,
8 Sep. 2025
Verb
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As summer gives way to fall—cooler nights, busier days—there are more opportunities to be present, to be deliberate, to be enmeshed in the dailiness of one’s life.—
Julia Hass,
Literary Hub,
16 Sep. 2025
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Lam advocates for a broad reintroduction of discretion, through which people enmeshed in bureaucracies would be given more room to make individual decisions.—
Joshua Rothman,
New Yorker,
9 Sep. 2025
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“Embroil.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/embroil. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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