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

Governments in the region launched a massive response, including traps, sniffer dogs, drone surveillance and most importantly, sterile flies.

— Jen Christensen, CNN Money, 7 Sep. 2026
The direct heat helps re-crisp the bottom of the crust, while the lid traps heat, so the cheese and toppings warm through without the crust becoming excessively dry.

— Daryl Austin, USA Today, 6 Sep. 2026

Definition of traps

Noun

Its windows framed the skyline through tangles of dark, leathery holm-oak leaves and, disorientingly, thick tree trunks rooted in enormous planters and secured against storms by vertical cables.

— Eric Klinenberg, New Yorker, 17 Aug. 2026
Supply chains in many industries are full of tangles, but for semiconductor tech, that’s putting it lightly.

— IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 15 Aug. 2026

Definition of tangles

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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

Passive nets retain practical advantage Passive fog nets have operated in the same desert for years without using electricity.

— Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 4 Sep. 2026
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

Definition of nets

Noun

Deadline understands that the couples, living together in a house, Big Brother-style, must try and figure out who is in a relationship, while keeping their own romantic entanglements secret in order to win.

— Peter White, Deadline, 2 Sep. 2026
But the company’s earnings call on Wednesday also underscored the financial entanglements between the chipmaker, the hyperscalers and the rest of the AI industry.

— Benjamin Guggenheim, Washington Post, 27 Aug. 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

His son Jack, who had attended the event in California, was instrumental in making these mazes happen, Universal officials have said.

— Dewayne Bevil, The Orlando Sentinel, 27 Aug. 2026
The conversation between Barker and the journalist would eventually gravitate to Halloween Horror Nights, whose mazes for many horror TV creators and filmmakers have become badges of honor, and markers of pop cultural relevance.

— Abbey White, HollywoodReporter, 27 Aug. 2026

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