Definition of entanglementnext
as in tangle
something that catches and holds his life is greatly complicated by his romantic entanglements

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Recent Examples of entanglement The current high price of gasoline, thanks to the Iran entanglement, certainly won’t deter owners and collectors from strutting their stuff. Charles Selle, Chicago Tribune, 1 June 2026 Children from a previous entanglement. Taiye Selasi, New Yorker, 31 May 2026 As the material moves closer to its quantum critical point, the threshold needed for entanglement drops sharply. Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 30 May 2026 The Moon enters Libra and your 8th House of Shared Resources at 10:34 AM EDT, bringing attention to debts, agreements, trust, emotional labor, and financial entanglements. Tarot.com, Baltimore Sun, 25 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for entanglement
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Noun
  • The design that emerges from this tangle of technological, institutional, urban, and aesthetic forces is a triumph of clarity.
    Justin Davidson, Curbed, 8 June 2026
  • Before 2014, bull kelp—a whip-like kelp with bulbous air bladders and trailing blades —stretched across Northern California’s coastline in dense tangles.
    Tatjana Baleta, Time, 28 May 2026
Noun
  • If that’s true, Rajoub had set a trap.
    Chris Jones, The Atlantic, 7 June 2026
  • That changed rapidly as Argentina flew out of the traps and picked apart their jaded opponents, going 2-0 up after 36 minutes, with the first goal a Messi penalty.
    Will Jeanes, New York Times, 5 June 2026
Noun
  • The design would also involve just one large mezzanine level, simplifying navigation in a station that has become renowned as a labyrinth.
    Evan Simko-Bednarski, New York Daily News, 8 June 2026
  • Every day is a kind of moral labyrinth for these people.
    Jeff Spry, Space.com, 5 June 2026
Noun
  • Its partner-rival OpenAI has had plans to combine its ChatGPT app and its Codex coding tool with its web browser into a single destination.
    Sebastian Herrera, Fortune, 29 May 2026
  • Now, satellite images reviewed by Reuters show Beijing is building a sprawling web of launch pads, bunkers and communications nodes near the isolated nuclear silos that hold the Chinese military’s longest-range missiles.
    Reuters, NBC news, 29 May 2026
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  • To test that, the final group completed cognitively demanding games such as mazes and shape puzzles called tangrams that contained no academic content.
    Supreet Kaur, Scientific American, 10 June 2026
  • One of the mazes retiring after the 2026 season will be open with the lights on during the event.
    Brady MacDonald, Oc Register, 10 June 2026

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“Entanglement.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/entanglement. Accessed 13 Jun. 2026.

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