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
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.
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Bloomberg,
Mercury News,
4 June 2026
Some right-wing lawmakers wore gold nooses to Monday's session.
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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.
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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.
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CBS News,
19 Dec. 2025
Since the shoulder seams unfasten under pressure, the armholes can't be used as makeshift nooses, either.
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Brendan Morrow,
USA Today,
17 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.
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Ellen Mitchell,
The Hill,
17 Dec. 2025
In the yard, decorations include nooses, hanging bodies, guards in towers and barbed wire fences.
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Colson Thayer,
PEOPLE,
27 Oct. 2025
Bags full of nooses had already been found.
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Robin Yassin-Kassab,
Time,
17 Sep. 2025
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
Since the shoulder seams unfasten under pressure, the armholes can't be used as makeshift nooses, either.
—
Brendan Morrow,
USA Today,
17 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
In the yard, decorations include nooses, hanging bodies, guards in towers and barbed wire fences.
—
Colson Thayer,
PEOPLE,
27 Oct. 2025
Bags full of nooses had already been found.
—
Robin Yassin-Kassab,
Time,
17 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for nooses
Noun
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This is because the infrastructure of the city traps in all of the heat that built up during the day, thus preventing a normal nocturnal cooldown seen in non-urban settings.
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One of the biggest traps organizations fall into is assuming employees already know what behaviors are valued.
Noun
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This Levoit vacuum just dropped under $200, and its impressive ability to pick up hair without any tangles is a pet owner’s dream.
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Tuohy found that only our top overall robovac pick, the Matic, did a better job on hard surfaces, while the Saros 20’s DuoDivide brush is designed to resist hair tangles, reducing the amount of maintenance required.
Noun
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Further down the street, a troupe of drummers held court with a mix of snares and bass.
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Studio engineers often added percussion accents like shakers or tambourines, or handclaps layered on the snares, using a combination of texture and mathematical precision to keep heads and hips moving.
Noun
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Sanders catches more than fish in his nets, of course.
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The father wanted nets and the smell of the wharf.
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Zelizer said Trump’s financial entanglements might be the most monarchical part of his administration.
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The Republic’s first decades were shaped by the rivalry between the British and French empires, and George Washington used his farewell address to warn his countrymen against permanent foreign entanglements.
Noun
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And who knows if, with chef Mario Carbone, part of those labyrinths will be repurposed into wineries for fine wines.
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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.
Noun
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Microservices introduced flexibility but also required service meshes, observability platforms and policy controls.
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Functional mapping techniques, for instance, can relate similar shapes but are restricted to open-loop motions on clean meshes.
Noun
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To test that, the final group completed cognitively demanding games such as mazes and shape puzzles called tangrams that contained no academic content.
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One of the mazes retiring after the 2026 season will be open with the lights on during the event.
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“Nooses.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nooses. Accessed 1 Jul. 2026.
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