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enmeshment

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Recent Examples of enmeshment No single personality type or demographic was immune to the experience of a deep enmeshment with one’s audience, and to its profound consequences for their creativity and well-being. — Julianna Pillemer, The Conversation, 18 Aug. 2026 Complex, intricate, and at all times realistic and humane, Famous Men is the pinnacle of the attempt to capture this specific and yet, all too universal, formative experience of enmeshment, devotion, and ego-death. — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 1 July 2026 People who avoid intimacy often fear that emotional closeness will lead to loss of control, obligation or enmeshment. — Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 7 Jan. 2026 That is an unhealthy amount of enmeshment. — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 4 Sep. 2025 This enmeshment of creative sources showcased how the titan utilized himself as an instrument who chose to refuse normativity. — Robyn Mowatt, Essence, 6 Aug. 2025

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His sliding popularity, flip-flopping on key personnel decisions, and entanglement in corruption allegations, have taken their toll on his poll ratings.

— Nick Paton Walsh, CNN Money, 19 Aug. 2026
Unlike circuits that store classical bits, qubits can exhibit strange phenomena like superposition and entanglement that give them extra computational power.

— Ben Brubaker, Quanta Magazine, 19 Aug. 2026

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Most of Harpman’s work that has so far been translated into English circles feelings of entrapment, disorientation, and exile.

— Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2026
The New Mexico Office of the Medical Investigator later determined the newborn died by homicide, finding that the child died from entrapment after being placed and tied inside a plastic trash bag beneath bloody paper towels and other garbage.

— Landon Mion, FOXNews.com, 2 Aug. 2026

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