as in tangles
something that catches and holds
his life is greatly complicated by his romantic entanglements
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Recent Examples of entanglements
Emotional or financial entanglements could feel heavier than usual today, and someone’s words could hit a nerve.
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Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 22 Apr. 2026
In 2024, pop-up gear was tested by 19 fishermen while waters were closed to conventional crab gear to prevent whale entanglements.
—Linda Zavoral, Mercury News, 17 Apr. 2026
But the better course might be to allow the state to go back to a single, simple plate design — one that avoids the fiscal entanglements and ideological biases of the current program.
—Orlando Sentinel Editorial Board, The Orlando Sentinel, 16 Apr. 2026
Freed from all the entanglements that come with having to launch a ground invasion, air war can overfly not just morality and law but arguments, rationales, the calibration of risks to rewards and of suffering to satisfaction.
—Fintan O’Toole, The New York Review of Books, 9 Apr. 2026
Quite the opposite, Beijing regards American entanglements in the Middle East over the past decades—including the now metastasizing crisis in Iran—as a cautionary tale.
—Ali Wyne, Time, 23 Mar. 2026
Her life as portrayed on Mormon Wives is that of a loose cannon who struggles to liberate herself from toxic romantic entanglements, running directly counter to The Bachelor’s fantasy of happily-ever-after.
—Rebecca Jennings, Vulture, 20 Mar. 2026
According to Sean Hastings, a policy manager for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), ship strikes and entanglements in fishing gear are currently the number one and number two threats to whales.
—CBS News, 16 Mar. 2026
All of them are caught up in these complicated romantic entanglements.
—Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 10 Mar. 2026
Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 22 Apr. 2026
In 2024, pop-up gear was tested by 19 fishermen while waters were closed to conventional crab gear to prevent whale entanglements.
—Linda Zavoral, Mercury News, 17 Apr. 2026
But the better course might be to allow the state to go back to a single, simple plate design — one that avoids the fiscal entanglements and ideological biases of the current program.
—Orlando Sentinel Editorial Board, The Orlando Sentinel, 16 Apr. 2026
Freed from all the entanglements that come with having to launch a ground invasion, air war can overfly not just morality and law but arguments, rationales, the calibration of risks to rewards and of suffering to satisfaction.
—Fintan O’Toole, The New York Review of Books, 9 Apr. 2026
Quite the opposite, Beijing regards American entanglements in the Middle East over the past decades—including the now metastasizing crisis in Iran—as a cautionary tale.
—Ali Wyne, Time, 23 Mar. 2026
Her life as portrayed on Mormon Wives is that of a loose cannon who struggles to liberate herself from toxic romantic entanglements, running directly counter to The Bachelor’s fantasy of happily-ever-after.
—Rebecca Jennings, Vulture, 20 Mar. 2026
According to Sean Hastings, a policy manager for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), ship strikes and entanglements in fishing gear are currently the number one and number two threats to whales.
—CBS News, 16 Mar. 2026
All of them are caught up in these complicated romantic entanglements.
—Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 10 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for entanglements
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This can happen due to your natural hair texture, dryness, or environmental stressors like wind, friction from your pillowcase, or pollution—your cuticles can catch on each other like Velcro, Small says, causing tangles.—
Sarah Felbin,
Allure,
26 Apr. 2026
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The microfiber-esque texture, Dyson says, allows for the cones to pick up hair without tangles.—
Adam Campbell-Schmitt,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
13 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Methane traps around 80 times as much heat as CO2 over a 20-year horizon, making the emissions from a buildout of this scale difficult to quantify but impossible to ignore.—
Tejasri Gururaj,
Interesting Engineering,
24 Apr. 2026
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Although pest control companies offer lethal solutions such as carpenter bee traps or chemical treatments, the best way to keep carpenter bees from bugging you is using stained, sealed, varnished or treated wood in building projects.—
Sarah Linn
April 24,
Sacbee.com,
24 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Functional mapping techniques, for instance, can relate similar shapes but are restricted to open-loop motions on clean meshes.—
Jijo Malayil,
Interesting Engineering,
22 Apr. 2026
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This particular deal gives you two meshes for even more coverage!—
George Yang,
PC Magazine,
6 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Magaletti ventures a tentative introduction of brushes on snares; following the muted peal of distant thunder, upsammy chimes in with a plangent synthesizer sequence reminiscent of Arovane and other IDM producers from around the turn of the millennium.—
Philip Sherburne,
Pitchfork,
13 Apr. 2026
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Conservationists-in-the-making can join hands-on efforts like removing poacher snares, clearing invasive plants, or collecting data on endangered species.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
9 Mar. 2026
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Laborious yet lithe lads and lasses have loyally leapt to luminate the lexical labyrinths of logic locking the lucrative lotto, longing to lure the lavish luxury lying latently in local landmarks.—
Jared Kaufman,
Twin Cities,
28 Jan. 2026
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Separated by labyrinths of creeks and smaller cays, each one represents a stepping stone away from civilization, Parrish told me.—
Henry Wismayer,
Travel + Leisure,
7 Jan. 2026
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There has to be a chance that Jos Buttler’s toils in Sri Lanka and India represent his last ventures on the international stage, and therefore the end of an era.—
Paul Newman,
New York Times,
5 Mar. 2026
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Both were premised on the idea of frictionless ease, liberating their users from outmoded toils.—
Jake Lundberg,
The Atlantic,
19 Feb. 2026
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Jeane used the example not to say that any of the three were in danger of closing, but to point out one of the enrollment quagmires in the district that covers 70 square miles.—
Jennah Pendleton,
Sacbee.com,
21 Apr. 2026
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Despite a few diversions along the way, Minney keeps returning to craft as a solution to fashion’s many quagmires.—
Jasmin Malik Chua,
Footwear News,
14 Apr. 2026
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“Entanglements.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/entanglements. Accessed 1 May. 2026.
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