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
However, once Venus enters Leo, your intimate affairs and emotional entanglements get hotter, messier and impossible to ignore.
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Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 5 June 2026
In other systems, media avoid particular partisan entanglements and present themselves to audiences as providers of neutral information to a nonaligned public.
—Encyclopedia Britannica, 26 May 2026
Offshore, fishing boats crowd the edge of the MPA, contributing to mounting entanglements that lead to prolonged suffering and slow deaths by strangulation or asphyxiation for marine mammals and seabirds.
—Letters To The Editor, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 May 2026
Listeners need not know anything about his complicated entanglements in order to enjoy it—perhaps in spite of themselves.
—Kelefa Sanneh, New Yorker, 19 May 2026
My guiding principle would be protecting American interests while avoiding unnecessary entanglements—making decisions grounded in facts, realism, and a clear understanding of the regional, economic, and security implications involved.
—Rachel Royster
may 14, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 14 May 2026
In recent years, the season has been delayed from its traditional mid-November start to as late as January in an effort to reduce whale entanglements, cutting into what fishermen say is their most profitable time of year.
—Da Lin, CBS News, 3 May 2026
But over a decade of romantic and career entanglements, their different reasons for making art become painfully clear.
—Greg Evans, Deadline, 28 Apr. 2026
The administration has pointed to that special status — usually given to short-term advisers who sit on temporary advisory committees or task forces — as a reason why Musk doesn’t have to make his financial disclosure form public, limiting scrutiny into his businesses’ entanglements.
—Abdallah Fayyad, Vox, 14 Mar. 2025
Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 5 June 2026
In other systems, media avoid particular partisan entanglements and present themselves to audiences as providers of neutral information to a nonaligned public.
—Encyclopedia Britannica, 26 May 2026
Offshore, fishing boats crowd the edge of the MPA, contributing to mounting entanglements that lead to prolonged suffering and slow deaths by strangulation or asphyxiation for marine mammals and seabirds.
—Letters To The Editor, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 May 2026
Listeners need not know anything about his complicated entanglements in order to enjoy it—perhaps in spite of themselves.
—Kelefa Sanneh, New Yorker, 19 May 2026
My guiding principle would be protecting American interests while avoiding unnecessary entanglements—making decisions grounded in facts, realism, and a clear understanding of the regional, economic, and security implications involved.
—Rachel Royster
may 14, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 14 May 2026
In recent years, the season has been delayed from its traditional mid-November start to as late as January in an effort to reduce whale entanglements, cutting into what fishermen say is their most profitable time of year.
—Da Lin, CBS News, 3 May 2026
But over a decade of romantic and career entanglements, their different reasons for making art become painfully clear.
—Greg Evans, Deadline, 28 Apr. 2026
The administration has pointed to that special status — usually given to short-term advisers who sit on temporary advisory committees or task forces — as a reason why Musk doesn’t have to make his financial disclosure form public, limiting scrutiny into his businesses’ entanglements.
—Abdallah Fayyad, Vox, 14 Mar. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for entanglements
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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
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For dogs and cats, the Hertzko Double-Sided Dog and Cat Dematting Comb has teeth designed for intense tangles and matting.—
BestReviews,
Mercury News,
15 May 2026
Noun
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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
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Use Sticky Traps Keep the sticky traps out to monitor your success.—
Arricca Elin SanSone,
Southern Living,
4 June 2026
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Sipper talked about how her company trains with scalar field outputs of simulation data, and the meshes of objects.—
John Werner,
Forbes.com,
23 May 2026
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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
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 11 Jun. 2026.
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