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past tense of ensnare

ensnared

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adjective

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Recent Examples of ensnared
Adjective
Swift was initially ensnared in the fight when Baldoni filed a dueling defamation lawsuit against Lively that included claims Swift was present during a pivotal meeting at Lively’s Tribeca penthouse that involved Lively’s efforts to make changes to the movie script. Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 12 Sep. 2025 Citizens of richer countries, like South Korea, have been ensnared and tortured in Cambodia’s scam compounds, though the Cambodian National Police deny this. Christine Ro, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025 Japan’s drug laws have ensnared other corporate executives before. Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 2 Sep. 2025 Cate Blanchett stars as a nun, Sister Eileen, who’s taken charge of a monastery and enrolls an Aboriginal boy recently ensnared in the outback. Eric Vilas-Boas, Vulture, 1 Sep. 2025 After the car was ensnared on I-96 near Star Road, the driver continued to try to drive away, resulting in the rear wheels being ripped off the vehicle. Jalen Williams, Freep.com, 29 Aug. 2025 They’ve been ensnared by his arching curveball and deft precision for the better part of two decades. Bennett Durando, Denver Post, 21 Aug. 2025 And worries abound that chipmakers will increasingly become ensnared in federal trade policy or that China could make a more formal recommendation to ban certain US chips altogether. Bloomberg, Mercury News, 14 Aug. 2025 Entanglements can inflict severe injuries on whales such as lacerations and infections, and may ultimately lead to drowning or starvation as whales struggle to breathe and feed while ensnared, according to the International Whaling Commission. Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 12 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for ensnared
Verb
  • Trying to pin down what a novelist actually believes is a sure way to get trapped in a labyrinth of misreadings and fallacies.
    Jeremy Gordon, The Atlantic, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Juno orbits Jupiter once every 33 days, and the trajectory brings the spacecraft through intense radiation belts trapped by the planet's powerful magnetic field.
    Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 12 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • With Freakier Friday hitting theaters, we’re all bound to be hit by a wave of nostalgia.
    Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2025
  • These tightly bound, spherical swarms often contain hundreds of thousands of stellar bodies and play host to some of the oldest stars in our galaxy.
    Anthony Wood, Space.com, 17 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • This little case keeps rings, necklaces, and earrings neatly tucked away, so nothing gets tangled—or worse, left behind.
    Kayla Kitts, Travel + Leisure, 7 Sep. 2025
  • True moral dilemmas, which become tangled in ways that seem impossible to unravel, with his private life.
    Zac Ntim, Deadline, 4 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Its circling movements once provided cover for enslaved people to slip away undetected, fleeing into palenques (the free Black towns).
    Essence, Essence, 28 Aug. 2025
  • And so to see that despite the exploitation that enslaved people were being subjected to despite the horrendous conditions, all this brutality going on, and yet people are trying actively recreating traditions, right?
    Outside Online, Outside Online, 27 Aug. 2025

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“Ensnared.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ensnared. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.

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