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nooses

noun

plural of noose
as in traps
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 nooses Like ballplayers just before the pitch, animal control crouched into position, with thick metal grabbers, nooses, and nets at the ready. — Zachary Przystup, Christian Science Monitor, 4 Sep. 2026 For almost a decade, the company headed by Elon Musk has been trying to fend off allegations that the assembly line in Tesla’s Fremont plant was a hostile work environment filled with racist slurs, graffiti and drawings of nooses and swastikas. — Bloomberg, Mercury News, 4 June 2026 Some right-wing lawmakers wore gold nooses to Monday's session. — Matt Bradley, NBC news, 1 Apr. 2026 Tensions between Black and White high school students escalate after nooses were hung from a tree to taunt Black students. — Domenica Bongiovanni, IndyStar, 11 Feb. 2026 The move capped back-and-forth revisions of the Coast Guard policy on swastikas, nooses and other hate symbols that had sparked an uproar. — CBS News, 19 Dec. 2025 After news broke of the Coast Guard’s plan to downgrade the language on swastikas and nooses, Lunday quickly released a memo to all service personnel that condemned both symbols and said they were not allowed in the workplace. — Ellen Mitchell, The Hill, 17 Dec. 2025 Since the shoulder seams unfasten under pressure, the armholes can't be used as makeshift nooses, either. — Brendan Morrow, USA Today, 17 Dec. 2025 In the yard, decorations include nooses, hanging bodies, guards in towers and barbed wire fences. — Colson Thayer, PEOPLE, 27 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for nooses
  1. traps
  2. tangles
  3. snares
  4. nets
  5. entanglements
  6. labyrinths
  7. meshes
  8. mazes
Noun
  • Locking the lid traps excess steam inside, altering how the appliance functions.
    — Jessica Safavimehr, Southern Living, 19 Sep. 2026
  • In July, airport officials set traps around the property to contain the malaria outbreak, The Sun reported.
    — Louis Casiano, FOXNews.com, 18 Sep. 2026
Definition of traps
Noun
  • Sticky beta-amyloid can build into brain-clogging plaque over decades, eventually spurring neuron-killing tau tangles that lead to symptoms.
    — Lauran Neergaard, Los Angeles Times, 15 Sep. 2026
  • Sazan is a rugged place—strewn with rocks and tangles of trees, populated by a large colony of rats, and studded with bunkers built by the Marxist dictator Enver Hoxha to defend against an imaginary invasion.
    — Dexter Filkins, New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2026
Definition of tangles
Noun
  • The team covers 6 to 12 miles a day on foot, tracking poachers and their snares.
    — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 6 Aug. 2026
  • 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
Definition of snares
Noun
  • During his research, Atan came here for a coffee and stayed for the artisans rolling tobacco and weaving fishing nets.
    — Charlie Hobbs, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Sep. 2026
  • Where canoes once rested beside fishing nets drying in the sun, housing developments and new infrastructure have appeared.
    — Sebastián López Brach, The Dial, 15 Sep. 2026
Definition of nets
Noun
  • The suit adds to a growing pile of legal entanglements between the federal government and the national media.
    — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 21 Sep. 2026
  • Cassidy Teufel, deputy director at the coastal commission, said during a review of the project that seaweed farms use taut, rigid lines, not the loose fishing lines that are a leading cause of whale entanglements.
    — Amy Taxin, Los Angeles Times, 10 Sep. 2026
Definition of entanglements
Noun
  • And who knows if, with chef Mario Carbone, part of those labyrinths will be repurposed into wineries for fine wines.
    — Marzio G. Mian, Vanity Fair, 16 June 2026
  • Laborious yet lithe lads and lasses have loyally leapt to luminate the lexical labyrinths of logic locking the lucrative lotto, longing to lure the lavish luxury lying latently in local landmarks.
    — Jared Kaufman, Twin Cities, 28 Jan. 2026
Definition of labyrinths
Noun
  • Components such as porous meshes and foams must be manufactured at scale, incorporated into working systems, and shown to maintain their unusual corrosion resistance over long operating periods.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 3 Sep. 2026
  • Others still involve video to a significant degree but incorporate more explicit 3D information, like data related to positioning, meshes, and so on somewhere in the process.
    — ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 13 July 2026
Definition of meshes
Noun
  • New this year are two mazes, including one that intermixes a host of vintage animation, as well as a magic show collaboration with the Magic Castle.
    — Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 15 Sep. 2026
  • The company said the mazes were in the works months before Parton died and are part of its annual campaign honoring country music’s brightest stars.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 15 Sep. 2026
Definition of mazes

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“Nooses.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nooses. Accessed 23 Sep. 2026.

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