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embroiling

verb

present participle of embroil
as in tangling
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 embroiling 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 The scale of the fraud in Minnesota dwarfs the roughly $100 million welfare scandal that rocked Mississippi from 2016 to 2019, embroiling former NFL quarterback Brett Favre in a civil lawsuit and sullying the state’s reputation for oversight. — The Denver Post Editorial Board, Denver Post, 20 Jan. 2026 Shea Couleé is speaking about the drama embroiling some of the former members of her drag family. — James Factora, Them., 24 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for embroiling
  1. tangling
  2. trapping
  3. broiling
  4. miring
Verb
  • There are also the journalists, the athletes, and the kids who spend sunny days doing contact improv, which was invented at Oberlin, tangling their limbs in the grass outside the library.
    — Jesse Dougherty, New Yorker, 5 Sep. 2026
  • Tie Loose Strings Tie sashes and strings to prevent tangling.
    — Madeline Buiano, Martha Stewart, 30 Aug. 2026
Definition of tangling
Verb
  • Poisoning or trapping only releases the fungus from carcasses.
    — Susanne Rust Follow, Los Angeles Times, 24 Sep. 2026
  • There is a feeling that constantly returning to the battles of the past risks trapping everybody in events that happened decades ago, when the priority should be preventing those old divisions from causing fresh damage in the present.
    — Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 23 Sep. 2026
Definition of trapping
Verb
  • 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
Definition of broiling
Verb
  • That’s an example of where not to get information, in order to avoid triggering massive legal conflicts and miring down your company in the process.
    — John Werner, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2026
  • The issue at hand – renewing Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA – has created strange political bedfellows this year on Capitol Hill, miring lawmakers in a debate pitting privacy against safety while consuming much of Congress' election-year time.
    — Zachary Schermele, USA Today, 10 June 2026
Definition of miring

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“Embroiling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/embroiling. Accessed 26 Sep. 2026.

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