Thesaurus results for NOOSES

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

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Noun

The room is closed off, equipped with monitoring traps and subject to follow-up inspections.

— Corey Schmidt, Sacbee.com, 3 Oct. 2026
Ecolab uses sensors in dishwashers, pest traps and water systems to cut service visits and predict maintenance.

— Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2026

Definition of traps

Noun

The brain’s surface has ridges and valleys, and CTE tangles are found in the depths of those valleys, called the cortical sulci, and surround blood vessels.

— Alexandra Pattillo, Scientific American, 23 Sep. 2026
Brushing controls shedding, removes debris and prevents tangles.

— Ryan Brennan, Kansas City Star, 21 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

Fort Lauderlale’s popular south side beach area, where volleyball nets, grills and the annual Tortuga Music Festival usher in a steady mix of locals and visitors.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 30 Sep. 2026
But if that person were, say, a lawyer who could earn $500 per hour, then donating three hours’ worth of wages to a charity that bought anti-malarial bed nets could save several hundred people’s lives every week.

— Beatrice Nolan, Fortune, 23 Sep. 2026

Definition of nets

Noun

Nearly 27% of 2025 entanglements were observed off the coast of California.

— Corinne Purtill, Los Angeles Times, 5 Oct. 2026
This luxurious adaptation of John Steinbeck's classic novel East of Eden, which tracks the dramatic entanglements of the Trask and Hamilton families in California's Salinas Valley, stars Florence Pugh, one of our favorite actresses right now.

— K. Thor Jensen, PC Magazine, 29 Sep. 2026

Definition of entanglements

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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

The policy comes as automatic renewals, confusing checkout processes, and cancellation mazes have become fixtures of the consumer experience.

— Lindsay Owens, New York Daily News, 28 Sep. 2026
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

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