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enmeshment

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as in entanglement

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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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Cassidy Teufel, deputy director at the coastal commission, said during a review of the project that seaweed farms use taut, rigid lines, not the loose fishing lines that are a leading cause of whale entanglements.

— Amy Taxin, Los Angeles Times, 10 Sep. 2026
The film concerns a bus full of French high-school seniors on a trip to Pompeii, where the long gaze of history meets their hormonal entanglements and a bunch of Freudian desire.

— Joe Reid, Vulture, 10 Sep. 2026

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But the methods used in the show’s sting operations, as depicted here, uncomfortably skirt the dubious boundaries of entrapment.

— David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 5 Sep. 2026
Both artists, Morris points out, were working in the context of World War II, and the owl’s ability to both burrow and take flight may have appealed to feelings of entrapment and a desire to escape.

— Kelly Presutti, ARTnews.com, 28 Aug. 2026

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