as in entanglement
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For a guy who swore off foreign entanglements, Trump has the United States as tangled as a cheap fishing reel.—
Nolan Finley,
Twin Cities,
9 Jan. 2026 -
However, the property has been mired in various legal and financial entanglements including foreclosure threats.—
Stacy Perman,
Los Angeles Times,
9 Jan. 2026
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Never wear your lenses while asleep, either, since that can cause dryness, irritation, abrasions and entrapment of germs that can lead to serious infections.—
Kristen Rogers,
CNN Money,
10 Jan. 2026
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Critics say the strategy can amount to entrapment of mentally vulnerable people who wouldn’t have the wherewithal to act alone.—
Dallas Morning News,
Dallas Morning News,
2 Jan. 2026
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This identity enmeshment can cause tunnel vision and reduce resilience.—
Alliance Manchester Business School,
Forbes.com,
15 Sep. 2025
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That is an unhealthy amount of enmeshment.—
Bethy Squires,
Vulture,
4 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Maybe Buffalo is a team of destiny, but this feels like an ambush in waiting.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
8 Jan. 2026
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Meanwhile, after surviving an ambush, Kyle finally confronts Callahan (Richard Brake), the man who killed his wife Tracy (Nishi Munshi).—
Allison DeGrushe,
Entertainment Weekly,
29 Dec. 2025
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The best songs use Natanya’s dense web of ideas to reflect on opaque emotions that stubbornly refuse to be reduced to cliche.—
H.D. Angel,
Pitchfork,
13 Jan. 2026
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Craigslist nostalgia Craigslist, the decades-old online classifieds site, is still the go-to platform for some millennials who are nostalgic for the earnestness of the early web.—
Jordan Blum,
Fortune,
13 Jan. 2026
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“Envelopment.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/envelopment. Accessed 21 Jan. 2026.
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