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entanglements

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plural of entanglement

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 With Mercury meeting both Saturn and Mars in your eighth house of transformation, financial matters, debts or emotional entanglements could demand more of your attention. —

Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 2 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 Left unmentioned was Duke’s earlier legal entanglements with its men’s lacrosse program. —

Daniel Libit, Sportico.com, 2 Mar. 2026 The president who once vowed to avoid foreign entanglements is now flexing his muscles abroad. —

Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 1 Mar. 2026 Pearce also has entanglements with oil and gas companies, which critics have said would be at odds with the BLM role, as the agency issues oil and gas leases. —

Nicole Blanchard, Idaho Statesman, 26 Feb. 2026

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Eisenberg plays a lot of acoustic guitar, sticks mostly to normie chords, and largely avoids dissonant tangles, opting for a bright, translucent sound.

— Reed Jackson, SPIN, 6 Apr. 2026
To him, the vision seemed right — not in the specific locations activated by various themes but in the sense that our neuroanatomy did seem to parse the world by subject, tangles and folds of neurons lighting up in response to clouds of ideas.

— Eric Boodman, Vulture, 25 Mar. 2026