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also immeshing
as in ensnaring
to catch or hold as if in a net
soon after Eli Whitney had invented it, others copied his cotton gin, and he spent the rest of his life enmeshed in lawsuits trying to protect his invention
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Last September, when news broke that another friend of Kraus’s, the journalist Olivia Nuzzi, had exchanged intimate texts with Kennedy, Kraus wrote a Substack post accusing Nuzzi of ensnaring Kennedy and insulted her looks on Instagram.—
Clare Malone,
New Yorker,
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On another, the Internal Revenue Code stands ready with its expatriation tax regime—potentially ensnaring not only those who voluntarily renounce their citizenship but also those whose citizenship is stripped away.—
Virginia La Torre Jeker,
Forbes.com,
9 Sep. 2025
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That total lack of self-awareness and disregard for consequences fed right into Epstein’s warped way of entrapping others.—
Stephanie Nolasco , Ashley Papa,
FOXNews.com,
25 Aug. 2025
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The parachute relies on a single suspension line rather than many cords, which reduces tangling and speeds up deployment.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
1 Oct. 2025
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The sides had been tangling over the evidence since March, when the judge held a Frye hearing to determine whether the new type of DNA testing should be admissible.—
Michael Ruiz , Jennifer Johnson,
FOXNews.com,
6 Sep. 2025
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The first is light management (trapping more photons), and the second is interface passivation (reducing energy losses).—
Christopher McFadden,
Interesting Engineering,
5 Oct. 2025
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Staff tried to bar the doors, Mitchell said, but the water got in, trapping her and others inside.—
CNN Money,
CNN Money,
5 Oct. 2025
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With the start of training camp only a few weeks away, Houston has begun the process of meshing one of the greatest scorers in league history with a talented, young roster that won 52 games last season in a treacherous Western Conference.—
William Guillory,
New York Times,
10 Sep. 2025
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The protest is the latest installment of Chicago’s viral trends — including the former Chicago rat hole and Jeremy Allen White lookalike contest in 2024 — meshing with the city’s penchant for protest.—
William Tong,
Chicago Tribune,
13 Aug. 2025
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The group also performed a two-qubit entangling gate with 98% fidelity, single-qubit rotations, and heating rate tests.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
22 Sep. 2025
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The new Netflix India original Saare Jahan Se Accha is the fictional story of the entangling worlds of various spies from India, Pakistan, Russia and America.—
Sweta Kaushal,
Forbes.com,
21 Aug. 2025
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Later that day, police received a tip of a weapons complaint involving a juvenile.—
Cathy Kozlowicz,
jsonline.com,
4 Oct. 2025
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Data from the commission show from 2020 to 2023, consumers lost more than $110 million in scams involving Bitcoin ATMs.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
4 Oct. 2025
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The Pro Bowl returner had a Pro Bowl-type breakout as a receiver in last year's Week 17 matchup against these same Bengals, snaring a 51-yard touchdown bomb from Bo Nix in the fourth quarter and adding another game-tying score at the end of regulation to push that late-December game into overtime.—
Luca Evans,
Denver Post,
29 Sep. 2025
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When Bello hit Tyler Heineman with a pitch to lead off the fifth, the right-hander immediately drew a double play from George Springer, helping his own cause by snaring the grounder up the middle and firing the ball to second.—
Mac Cerullo,
Boston Herald,
26 Sep. 2025
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“Enmeshing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/enmeshing. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.
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