noose

noun

ˈnüs How to pronounce noose (audio)
Definition of noosenext
as in tangle
something that catches and holds the representative was forced to resign after getting caught in a noose of lies and corruption

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Recent Examples of noose The former cop also claimed to have found a hangman’s noose under Epstein’s mattress. — Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 16 June 2026 Even-handed, compassionate, and as suffocatingly tense as a hangman's noose, Munich is Spielberg's most underrated film. — Chris Nashawaty, Entertainment Weekly, 13 June 2026 Authorities suspect Mullis placed antisemitic flyers showing hateful symbols such as a noose, a swastika and imagery associated with the German Nazi Party. — Maveah Griffith june 12, Charlotte Observer, 12 June 2026 Underneath was a photograph of a noose. — Kevin Rennie, Hartford Courant, 6 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for noose
Recent Examples of Synonyms for noose
  1. tangle
  2. trap
  3. snare
  4. entanglement
  5. labyrinth
  6. web
  7. quicksand
  8. maze
Noun
  • Luria, however, worried about that tangle of investments which bind the AI giants to their own customers; the love triangle of Google, Amazon and Anthropic; Microsoft and OpenAI, Nvidia and CoreWeave.
    — Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 23 July 2026
  • During this time, the brain starts to shrink, and the misfolded proteins that are a hallmark of Alzheimer’s begin to build up — sticky amyloid beta plaques in the brain and tau tangles in neurons.
    — Richard Sima, Washington Post, 21 July 2026
Definition of tangle
Noun
  • Standard eradication methods — such as passive traps, genetic modification, species sterilization, and chemical insecticides — all carry limitations, environmental risks, or health hazards for humans and pets.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 27 July 2026
  • The episode opened with Cole and his remaining Greens falling into a trap set by young Lord Oscar Tully (Archie Barnes) and Lord Roderick Dustin (Tommy Flanagan) that saw a host of Rivermen play dead in order to lure their enemy into battle.
    — Megan McCluskey, Time, 27 July 2026
Definition of trap
Noun
  • Recounting her boyfriend calling the police on her during their fraught break-up, the chorus rings out over rowdy snares like a brutal playground taunt.
    — Will Pritchard, Pitchfork, 20 July 2026
  • Poaching once devastated the park, but in the past decade, 40,000 wire snares have been removed, and black rhinos, cheetahs, lions and wild dogs have been reintroduced.
    — The Week UK, TheWeek, 19 July 2026
Definition of snare
Noun
  • Not to mention the foreign business entanglements of his family members.
    — James Robenalt, Vanity Fair, 27 July 2026
  • Light is also used to distribute entanglement, and perform measurements or trigger operations.
    — Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 26 July 2026
Definition of entanglement
Noun
  • Nor must Morocco contend with California’s labyrinth of zoning, lawsuits, and YIMBY-NIMBY politics.
    — Joe Mathews, Mercury News, 28 July 2026
  • It’s written on a stone plinth at the base of one of the labyrinth’s dense trees.
    — Bailey Richards, PEOPLE, 27 July 2026
Definition of labyrinth
Noun
  • At the same time, Fedorov has built a worldwide web of ties with global tech leaders.
    — Kevin Holden Platt, Forbes.com, 22 July 2026
  • Low interest rates let venture capitalists fund nonsense web businesses and let banks provide junk loans to borrowers with terrible credit.
    — Annie Lowrey, The Atlantic, 21 July 2026
Definition of web
Noun
  • The Moon may not be coated by miles-deep quicksand, but it is covered with countless microscopic knives.
    — Elijah Tan, Encyclopedia Britannica, 10 July 2026
  • Don’t fall into the quicksand of using AI as a replacement for your own mental engagement.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 16 June 2026
Definition of quicksand
Noun
  • Chiwetel Ejiofor stars as a furniture-store owner who finds himself in the titular liminal space, a haunting maze of hallways and rooms that exists on a physically impossible plane of existence.
    — Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 24 July 2026
  • In Backrooms, Chiwetel Ejiofor stars as Clark, a struggling furniture store owner who enters an interdimensional portal to a haunting maze in the facility’s basement.
    — Tim Lammers, Forbes.com, 21 July 2026
Definition of maze

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