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as in barked
to speak sharply or irritably
she snarled at me after I kept badgering her with questions
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as in knotted
to twist together into a usually confused mass
you'll be awfully sorry if you snarl your fishing line
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Recent Examples of snarled
Vanessa Yurkevich, CNN, 3 Oct. 2024
View Comments Shipping rates soared during and immediately after the pandemic, as supply chains snarled and demand surged.
—Vanessa Yurkevich, CNN, 3 Oct. 2024
Shipping rates soared during and immediately after the pandemic, as supply chains snarled and demand surged.
—Chris Isidore, CNN, 1 Oct. 2024
Shipping rates soared during and immediately after the pandemic, as supply chains snarled and demand surged.
—Chris Isidore, CNN, 1 Oct. 2024
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View Comments Shipping rates soared during and immediately after the pandemic, as supply chains snarled and demand surged.
—Vanessa Yurkevich, CNN, 3 Oct. 2024
View Comments Shipping rates soared during and immediately after the pandemic, as supply chains snarled and demand surged.
—Vanessa Yurkevich, CNN, 3 Oct. 2024
Shipping rates soared during and immediately after the pandemic, as supply chains snarled and demand surged.
—Chris Isidore, CNN, 1 Oct. 2024
Shipping rates soared during and immediately after the pandemic, as supply chains snarled and demand surged.
—Chris Isidore, CNN, 1 Oct. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for snarled
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In this scenario, employees fill the vacuum of information with a tangled web of emotions around AI—most of them negative—and adoption is less likely to happen.Larry English, Forbes, 26 Nov. 2024
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What happens when lines become tangled and communication breaks down entirely?Emma Madden, Vulture, 16 Aug. 2024
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Vast factories and processing plants slumped into the earth, stripped bare like knotted jungle gyms.Sean Williams, Harper's Magazine, 23 Sep. 2024
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Rolling hills of millennial olive and almond trees flex their knotted branches.Erika Page, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Sep. 2024
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The series will cover the 50 days between the death of an eight-year-old boy from unknown causes to the official statement identifying contaminated rapeseed oil as the cause.John Hopewell, Variety, 2 Dec. 2024
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It’s transmitted by close contact with infected individuals, or by contact with contaminated objects.Cara Lynn Shultz, People.com, 2 Dec. 2024
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But, despite its tainted origins, blood quantum is still a part of many tribes’ contemporary policies.Rachel Monroe, The New Yorker, 20 Nov. 2024
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Doctors at the surgical center became wary of the tainted IV bags in August 2022 after an 18-year-old patient had to be rushed to the intensive care unit during a routine sinus surgery, the Justice Department said.Alexis Simmerman, Austin American-Statesman, 21 Nov. 2024
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“Snarled.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/snarled. Accessed 10 Dec. 2024.
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