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verb

past tense of entwine

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Recent Examples of entwined
Adjective
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 The spacecraft saw an arching filament made from entwined magnetic fields carrying plasma and connected to a cross-shaped region of magnetic activity laced with more magnetic field lines. Keith Cooper, Space.com, 26 Jan. 2026 The Chinese and American economies are infinitely more entwined than the separate worlds of Soviet communism and the free world were during the Cold War. Peter Leyden, Big Think, 7 Oct. 2025 Providing Essential Third Places After the early 2000s, coffee culture and café culture became more entwined and influenced broader trends, with platforms like Instagram giving new reasons to show off an aesthetically pleasing café or cheerful latte art. Kristina McGuirk, Better Homes & Gardens, 18 Sep. 2025 Launching on 16th October, 2025, the bubblegum pink sculpture features two entwined tongues, forming a surreal, dancing figure at the entrance of the iconic Brutalist gallery. Lee Sharrock, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
Verb
Whitehead, meanwhile, crystalizes his sense of what makes the city run, where Carney fits in, and how the straight and crooked worlds are entwined in one strange ecosystem with laws that only the lawless can enforce. David Hajdu, The Atlantic, 16 July 2026 Though their characters are not as entwined as their roles in previous projects, Garner was thrilled to be working again with Greer, her close friend of more than 30 years. Clarissa Cruz, Entertainment Weekly, 16 July 2026 Juárez and El Paso are sister cities, geographically and culturally entwined. Jonathan Blitzer, New Yorker, 13 July 2026 In the book, Tatum’s son, Dylan, is who she gets entwined with. Max Gao, Variety, 11 July 2026 We have been deeply entwined with the country for a long time — in my case nearly forty years — in ways that even many Japanese people applaud. David Hochman, Forbes.com, 11 July 2026 As much as some wish to deny it, sports and politics have been entwined forever — from Nero to now, at least. Vahe Gregorian july 7, Kansas City Star, 7 July 2026 Zhenwu’s roots stretch back to ancient days as the god of the North, when he was often depicted as a turtle entwined with a snake. Michael Naparstek, The Conversation, 6 July 2026 The song explores the theme of young love entwined in a love triangle. Alyssa Rotunno, InStyle, 4 July 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for entwined
Adjective
  • Visitors will enter the Price family’s secluded vacation home in the woods, succumb to ferocious flesh-eating Deadites and pass through other twisted scenes from the latest movie in the Evil Dead Burn haunted house.
    Brady MacDonald, Oc Register, 21 July 2026
  • Massive Attack, Tricky’s alma mater, once trod similar ground, and several songs here bring to mind their own twisted rock opus Mezzanine, for better or worse.
    Ben Cardew, Pitchfork, 21 July 2026
Verb
  • But the average couple have arguably become more intertwined.
    Faith Hill, The Atlantic, 24 July 2026
  • These intertwined thematic threads—language and the body, social and political repression, and lines of flight towards liberation—coalesce in Cris Judar’s fiction.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 24 July 2026
Verb
  • For example, a gardener may not see a snake coiled among the plants.
    Anne Ewbank, Sacbee.com, 7 July 2026
  • As highlighted by the white circle on the chart, the MACD indicator is currently tightly coiled.
    Nishant Pant, CNBC, 7 July 2026
Adjective
  • The signal degrades at every step along this journey, and the guessers have to do their best with some pretty warped data.
    Tasha Robinson, Vulture, 28 July 2026
  • Googlers peppered the executives with anxious questions about whether products like YouTube were reinforcing warped beliefs and making the country more divided.
    Claire Stapleton, New Yorker, 18 July 2026
Verb
  • This Fulani style features braided ends for a fabulous addition of color and texture.
    Sunnah Rasheed, InStyle, 23 July 2026
  • Those missing arms and legs were quickly discovered, braided together in a garbage bag laying underneath the body bag.
    Joy Press, Vanity Fair, 22 July 2026
Verb
  • For an additional pop of color, Cardi wore her hair in an icy blue bob that was parted to the side and curled under at the ends.
    Catherine Santino, PEOPLE, 27 July 2026
  • Carol Blair was found curled in the fetal position in a bedroom, shot three times in the back of the head, the investigator said in court.
    Adam Sabes, FOXNews.com, 26 July 2026
Adjective
  • 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
  • Twin brothers, these rapscallions can be told apart by Boris’s kinked tail and the colors of their collars.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • But soaking produce in water with a few teaspoons of baking soda mixed in can get fruit and veggies even cleaner and potentially remove leftover pesticide residue too.
    Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 21 July 2026
  • In Greater China, which includes the Hong Kong and Macao markets, the picture was mixed, with retail sales rising 9 percent on a stable store base, but wholesale replenishment orders described as modest.
    Lily Templeton, Footwear News, 21 July 2026

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“Entwined.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/entwined. Accessed 1 Aug. 2026.

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