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verb

past tense of entwine

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Recent Examples of entwined
Adjective
Between the Ears now leads horse expeditions through Argentina, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Morocco, and Türkiye, working with local partners to immerse riders in places where horses remain entwined with everyday life. — Chloe Frost-Smith, Vogue, 27 Oct. 2026 From John Madden, who directed the seven-time Oscar winner Shakespeare in Love, the pic stars Laura Linney and Rhys Ifans as strangers whose lives become entwined when both are diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease. — Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 10 Sep. 2026 Kiton A far cry from its prep-school cousins, Kiton’s take on the traditional cable knit blows up the proportions with more loosely entwined cords, making a statement with negative space—and a gutsy chartreuse color. — Jon Roth, Robb Report, 5 Sep. 2026 While the exhibit is enabled by the entwined ubiquity of the English language and the internet, the artists know these technologies aren’t transparent. — Los Angeles Times, 20 Aug. 2026 However, as Bitcoin and crypto have become more firmly embedded in the financial sector, Goldman has become more entwined with crypto. — Jack Kubinec, Fortune, 14 Apr. 2026 From unspoken racial dynamics, like Sid rejecting Tia in favor of her white friends, to the economic worries that become entwined with her self-image, Sid’s precarious new social position rests on a knife’s edge. — Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 15 Mar. 2026 Yet if struggle has been a feature of Newcastle’s and Gordon’s entwined existence, then another way of looking at it is that the struggle continues. — George Caulkin, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2026 In the photo, the couple lay entwined on a fancy carpet, wearing dinner attire, in a posh San Francisco home owned by the oil rich Getty family with a sweeping view of the Pacific Ocean visible behind them. — Andrew Graham, Sacbee.com, 5 Feb. 2026
Verb
Still, the exchange revealed how entwined the debate about diagnosis had become with the development and marketing of treatments. — Manvir Singh, New Yorker, 2 Nov. 2026 When Luke’s current assignment becomes entwined with Colter’s, the two become uneasy partners. — Katie Campione, Deadline, 2 Nov. 2026 In the past legislative session, the issues of homeschooling and child abuse became entwined. — Kaitlin McCallum, Hartford Courant, 2 Nov. 2026 Campari’s marketing, from the start, has embedded and entwined itself brilliantly in the art and design of Italy itself; some of its ads have become icons of Italian culture. — M. Carrie Allan, Washington Post, 30 Oct. 2026 The News Investors got a look for the first time at just how much money Anthropic is losing and how deeply entwined the frontier lab is with other players in the AI ecosystem. — Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 26 Oct. 2026 While the global energy crisis is tied to geopolitics, Bangladesh’s woes are uniquely entwined. — Charlie Campbell, Time, 20 Oct. 2026 Their content objections also became entwined with safety concerns amid building demonstrations by activists. — Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 8 Oct. 2026 Picasso’s Le Baiser (1969) shows two lovers entwined in a kiss and is estimated at $40 million. — Brian Boucher, ARTnews.com, 5 Oct. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for entwined
Adjective
  • On Thursday, large cranes continued to move parts of the twisted metal and other wreckage from the tracks as search-and-rescue crews combed through the debris for victims.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 29 Oct. 2026
  • Endorphins altered the intensity of his grief, turning it into a twisted kind of exultation.
    — Nick Paumgarten, New Yorker, 26 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • For decades, the United States and Canada worked to build one of the world’s closest economic partnerships, with supply chains, businesses and trade increasingly intertwined.
    — Soph Warnes, CNN Money, 30 Oct. 2026
  • That local controversy is now intertwined with a broader legal battle.
    — Alejandro Avila OutKick, FOXNews.com, 27 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • Their soft robot, called BIOSENTER, is designed to autonomously inch through the crowded, cramped, and coiled small intestine, contracting and extending its body much like an earthworm or snake.
    — Mack DeGeurin, Popular Science, 29 Oct. 2026
  • Beneath the churning buzz of the water pump in the basement corner, a milk snake coiled unnoticed.
    — Madeline ffitch, Harpers Magazine, 27 Oct. 2026
Adjective
  • In Samo’s warped reality, omnipresent hornets gain an evil power, forcing him to confront his mother in what could turn into a brutal showdown.
    — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 30 Oct. 2026
  • And there are the foot soldiers themselves, whose earnest dedication to honor, even within a warped and abusive framework, Sorkin and his characters can’t help respecting.
    — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 30 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • After the hair is parted into sections, each section is twisted or braided.
    — Eden Stuart, Allure, 26 Oct. 2026
  • His creator, an unnamed basket-weaver (Peter Dinklage), braided him as a mate for a lonely virgin, a fisherwoman (Olivia Colman) who stomps around her rustic village smelling like sushi and tossing her head back in an Eliza Doolittle guffaw.
    — Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • Her hair was parted deeply to one side with a portion teased up and curled, similar to how Monroe wore her hair in movies like Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.
    — Kara Nesvig, Allure, 3 Nov. 2026
  • The man with the register looked up slowly and his lips curled outward like a bow with an unseen arrow.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 28 Oct. 2026
Adjective
  • Just a few months ago, the National Park Service caught a young collared male at the western end of the mountain range who had a kinked tail — a sign of inbreeding.
    — Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 8 Oct. 2026
  • Stafford explains that this gap helps keep the hoses from being crushed or kinked, which can lead to speedy wear and tear, leaks, and drainage issues.
    — Maria Sabella, The Spruce, 24 May 2026
Verb
  • But the evidence on the impact of user prompt tone on output can be mixed.
    — Hadas Gold, CNN Money, 1 Nov. 2026
  • And of course, all of this is mixed into a white-cast-free milky serum that’s suitable for all skin types.
    — Kiana Murden, Vogue, 30 Oct. 2026

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“Entwined.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/entwined. Accessed 7 Nov. 2026.

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