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 cooling cultural appetite for drunken hookups could have spelled catastrophe for Summer House, but viewers seemed enthralled with Paige and Hannah’s friendship even more than their romantic entanglements. Rebecca Jennings, Vulture, 16 Apr. 2025 Officials plan to keep an eye out for Check in the next few months to see how the whale recovers from the entanglement, the NOAA said. Paloma Chavez, Sacbee.com, 15 Apr. 2025 The big picture: Archer, who was convicted of fraud in 2018, provided key testimony during the congressional inquiry into the business entanglements of former President Biden's son. Sareen Habeshian, Axios, 31 Mar. 2025 The legacy of colonialism and Cold War entanglements that drew parts of the region into superpower rivalries and proxy wars left many Southeast Asian countries wary of aligning too closely with any one major power. Lynn Kuok, Foreign Affairs, 14 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for entanglement
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Noun
  • The possible legal tangle between Minnesota and the Trump administration mirrors a similar situation between the administration and Maine, whose leaders have also refused to follow Trump’s anti-trans sports order.
    Abby Monteil, Them., 23 Apr. 2025
  • Bateman and his team had been studying tau tangles, the abnormal clumps of protein that form inside the neurons of people with Alzheimer's.
    Jon Hamilton, NPR, 2 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • In recent years, the crabs have also been spreading across the United Kingdom, where authorities are experimenting with traps to prevent them from migrating to downstream breeding grounds.
    Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 May 2025
  • The Hill: Democrats have fallen into a narrative trap with Abrego Garcia.
    Jonathan Easley, The Hill, 30 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Procurement operates in one system, accounts payable in another and vendor data lives across a labyrinth of spreadsheets and email threads.
    Laurent Charpentier, Forbes.com, 22 Apr. 2025
  • Over the last six decades, the Defense Department has created a labyrinth of rules, regulations, and confusing acquisition policies that encourage risk aversion and inertia.
    MICHAEL BROWN, Foreign Affairs, 22 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Through shocking testimonies from government insiders, confidential documents, and private audio recordings from the highest level of the military, BODYGUARD OF LIES exposes the tangled web of deception fed to the American public by the U.S. government during its 20-year war in Afghanistan.
    Matthew Carey, Deadline, 1 May 2025
  • Trump sees this web of alliances, treaties and soft power as expensive, outdated relics that restrain America's ability to act decisively on its own.
    Greg Myre, NPR, 1 May 2025
Noun
  • The road to succeeding in school athletics has always seemed more like a maze than a path.
    Daniel Fusch, USA Today, 27 Apr. 2025
  • Then, wearing a VR headset, the participants used a joystick to navigate through a three-dimensional maze with landmark clues to find a treasure chest at the end.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 27 Apr. 2025

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“Entanglement.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/entanglement. Accessed 6 May. 2025.

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