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
Tennessee Builders Alliance sent workers home and contacted police after finding the rope tied like a noose.
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Andy Humbles, The Tennessean, 22 July 2025
One video includes a FaceTime recording where Arnold has a noose around Zara’s neck and swings her body around.
—Jade Jackson, IndyStar, 2 July 2025
The appearance on January 6 of a gallows with a noose hanging from it outside the Capitol visually reinforced the allusion to that defining moment in the novel.
—James Shapiro, The Atlantic, 18 July 2025
Police are investigating a report that a rope tied similar to a noose was found at the new Nissan Stadium construction site.
—Andy Humbles, Nashville Tennessean, 18 July 2025
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Andy Humbles, The Tennessean, 22 July 2025
One video includes a FaceTime recording where Arnold has a noose around Zara’s neck and swings her body around.
—Jade Jackson, IndyStar, 2 July 2025
The appearance on January 6 of a gallows with a noose hanging from it outside the Capitol visually reinforced the allusion to that defining moment in the novel.
—James Shapiro, The Atlantic, 18 July 2025
Police are investigating a report that a rope tied similar to a noose was found at the new Nissan Stadium construction site.
—Andy Humbles, Nashville Tennessean, 18 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for noose
Noun
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At the river’s edge, a quarter-mile-long Mitsubishi factory was a mountainous tangle of steel.—
Charles Pellegrino,
Rolling Stone,
6 Aug. 2025
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In contrast with the tangle of criminal cases which mostly stalled against Trump, Brazilian courts moved swiftly against Bolsonaro, threatening to end his political career and fracture his right-wing movement.—
Ricardo Brito,
USA Today,
5 Aug. 2025
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According to the almond board, other methods such as bait stations, snap traps and owl boxes – which draw the rodent predators – are also being employed, but farmers say the tactics are expensive and not entirely effective for a plague of this magnitude.—
Jorge L. Ortiz,
USA Today,
18 Aug. 2025
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One player who might not be a trap however is one of Pep Guardiola’s newest recruits: Tijjani Reijnders.—
Abdul Rehman,
New York Times,
18 Aug. 2025
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Utilizing cameras to target offenders can both help the police deploy limited resources efficiently and — when combined with facial recognition or bike-registration data — snare offenders remotely.—
Steve Cohen,
New York Daily News,
13 July 2025
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The absence of lobster traps and not being poked and prodded by divers armed with snares, tickle sticks and nets for nearly four months usually results in an abundance of bugs, a term that refers to the insect-like appearance of lobsters.—
Steve Waters,
Miami Herald,
5 July 2025
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Devon would be a welcome way out of all this entanglement, but can James see a path forward with Dani?—
Ryan Coleman Published,
EW.com,
11 Aug. 2025
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Many foreign leaders, lobbyists, and executives who might otherwise have paid handsomely for the Trump hotel’s location and luxury stayed elsewhere, fearing entanglement in an influence scandal.—
David D. Kirkpatrick,
New Yorker,
11 Aug. 2025
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But these products were accompanied by a labyrinth of names and uses: GPT-4o and GPT-4o mini and GPT-4.1; o1-mini and o1-pro; o3 and o3-pro and o4-mini; and so on.—
Matteo Wong,
The Atlantic,
7 Aug. 2025
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For over two decades, search engines have served as ubiquitous routers directing billions of clickers through the labyrinth of the internet.—
Perry Carpenter,
Forbes.com,
29 July 2025
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Rich and famous people with much, much better things to do are willingly humiliating themselves on Hot Ones, a web show that invites celebrities to eat hot wings while answering interview questions and that sold last year for $82.5 million.—
Ellen Cushing,
The Atlantic,
18 Aug. 2025
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The discovery provides a new glimpse into the complex web of human evolution.—
Ashley Strickland,
CNN Money,
16 Aug. 2025
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Does TikTok go the Twitter-ian way of far-right quicksand pit?—
Steven Zeitchik,
HollywoodReporter,
9 July 2025
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Some have likened this to building a skyscraper on quicksand.—
Alexander Sudeykin,
Forbes.com,
16 June 2025
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The length of any single path could be unimaginably long and require taking millions or even billions of steps in the maze, says Sergei Gukov, the recent study’s senior author and a professor of mathematics at Caltech.—
Deni Ellis Béchard,
Scientific American,
11 Aug. 2025
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Other new attractions coming this fall will include a haunted maze, scare zone and live show.—
Sydney Sasser,
Charlotte Observer,
11 Aug. 2025
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“Noose.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/noose. Accessed 21 Aug. 2025.
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