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 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 Bags full of nooses had already been found. — Robin Yassin-Kassab, Time, 17 Sep. 2025

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Noun

In 1998, voters passed Proposition 4, which banned certain traps and animal poisons for recreational and commercial animal trapping.

— Tim Fang, CBS News, 10 Aug. 2026
As the school year started and drivers tiptoed into new routines or back into old ones a couple of theoretical bear traps snapped down this past Tuesday in Cobb County.

— Doug Turnbull, AJC.com, 9 Aug. 2026

Definition of traps

Noun

An overabundance of the SORLA protein protected against a number of biological processes linked to the formation of tau tangles and progression of neurodegeneration.

— Noah Lyons, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 July 2026
During this time, the brain starts to shrink, and the misfolded proteins that are a hallmark of Alzheimer’s begin to build up — sticky amyloid beta plaques in the brain and tau tangles in neurons.

— Richard Sima, Washington Post, 21 July 2026

Definition of tangles

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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
Poaching once devastated the park, but in the past decade, 40,000 wire snares have been removed, and black rhinos, cheetahs, lions and wild dogs have been reintroduced.

— The Week UK, TheWeek, 19 July 2026

Definition of snares

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Not to mention the foreign business entanglements of his family members.

— James Robenalt, Vanity Fair, 27 July 2026
The conditions that allowed MAHA to flourish—the trust deficit, the corporate entanglements, the gap between research and community, the invisibility of public health in people’s daily lives—have been festering for decades.

— Craig Spencer, The Atlantic, 25 July 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

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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
This might be the last chance to get these items, so check out the latest sales and savings on meshes and routers.

— George Yang, PC Magazine, 29 June 2026

Definition of meshes

Noun

Evil Dead mazes have been featured in 2013, 2017 and 2023 during Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Studios Hollywood.

— Brady MacDonald, Oc Register, 21 July 2026
With their billowing sails, teakwood decks and mazes of ropes and rigging, ships like Eagle draw throngs of visitors hoping to get a glimpse of the past.

— Karissa Waddick, USA Today, 1 July 2026

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