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 law holds the boy accountable despite his lack of malice, only for Alec Baldwin — of all people — to save Lucas from a noose by murdering all of his jailers.
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David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 2 May 2025
Min rescues him from both the noose and a sister of the Black Ajah.
—Sean T. Collins, Vulture, 17 Apr. 2025
Try not to get spooked by the shot of a room that’s empty save for a chair and a noose.
‘Compulsion’ (1959)
Stream it on Amazon Prime Video.
—Erik Piepenburg, New York Times, 2 June 2025
Surrounding June are several nooses, including one already occupied by Aunt Phoebe.
—EW.com, 20 May 2025
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David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 2 May 2025
Min rescues him from both the noose and a sister of the Black Ajah.
—Sean T. Collins, Vulture, 17 Apr. 2025
Try not to get spooked by the shot of a room that’s empty save for a chair and a noose.
‘Compulsion’ (1959)
Stream it on Amazon Prime Video.
—Erik Piepenburg, New York Times, 2 June 2025
Surrounding June are several nooses, including one already occupied by Aunt Phoebe.
—EW.com, 20 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for noose
Noun
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About a dozen streets on it bore names; the rest was a tangle of lines.—
The New York Times,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
15 June 2025
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That development was paused amid a tangle of lawsuits in 2023 and 2024, but is moving forward after the cases were resolved in November and March.—
Nick Rosenberger,
Idaho Statesman,
4 June 2025
Noun
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Furthermore, Indigenous peoples used Amelanchier branches to craft arrow shafts, baskets, ropes, fish traps, and tools for unearthing root crops, writes Jeffrey A. Hart.—
The Editors,
JSTOR Daily,
27 June 2025
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The pricing trap: Most service businesses bill by the hour.—
Preston Fore,
Fortune,
27 June 2025
Noun
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Wolves are killed across the Northern Rockies using steel-jawed traps, neck snares, packs of dogs and even snowmobiles.—
Jim Martin,
Denver Post,
27 June 2025
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After hundreds of years of persistent persecution—one generation of farmers learning from the previous generation to poison, snare, and shoot wolves—the animals’ near disappearance around the turn of the 20th century was celebrated throughout Europe as the end of a long, bloody, and hard-won war.—
Jonathan C. Slaght,
The Atlantic,
11 June 2025
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Hers is a direct critique of the banalities of global capitalism and its entanglement with labor and production, told through a body of work that is at once familiar yet strange, moving between the real and the fictional to fascinating and powerful effect.—
Nargess Banks,
Forbes.com,
25 June 2025
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Their fearlessness is grounded in training and in seeing the Middle East as a limited operation in the future, after more than two decades of divisive and protracted entanglements — in Afghanistan, Iraq and beyond — which Trump had campaigned on ending.—
Adam Carlson,
People.com,
25 June 2025
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Each insurance company seems to have its own labyrinth of portals and billing procedures.—
Paulina Wierzbicka,
Forbes.com,
26 June 2025
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Deep beneath the Zagros Mountains in central Iran, in a labyrinth of fortified tunnels outside the city of Natanz, centrifuges spun at speeds too fast for the eye to track.—
Nik Popli,
Time,
19 June 2025
Noun
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Identity Theft companies can monitor personal information like your Social Security Number (SSN), phone number, and email address and alert you if it is being sold on the dark web or being used to open an account.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
1 July 2025
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While a recent News Corp investor report said the Post’s web traffic had dipped, the national media’s focus on Mamdani and his plans to change New York could provide good fodder for the paper and segments on Fox News.—
Max Tani,
semafor.com,
30 June 2025
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These moves chip away at the 188,000 pages bloating the Code of Federal Regulations, freeing businesses and families from bureaucratic quicksand.—
Clyde Wayne Crews Jr,
Forbes.com,
25 June 2025
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But the question of who’s going to kill or get killed ultimately proves less important than how their pasts have shaped these men — or rather trapped them, like quicksand.—
Dennis Harvey,
Variety,
20 June 2025
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The locations are based on Universal’s successful Halloween Horror Nights in Florida and California, which feature elaborate haunted houses and mazes.—
Alex Weprin,
HollywoodReporter,
26 June 2025
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The Las Vegas location will open with four haunted mazes.—
Dewayne Bevil,
The Orlando Sentinel,
26 June 2025
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“Noose.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/noose. Accessed 7 Jul. 2025.
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