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adjective

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as in complicated
having many parts or aspects that are usually interrelated it helps to have a lawyer to sort out the tangled contracts that home buyers typically have to contend with

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tangled

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verb

past tense of tangle
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as in trapped
to catch or hold as if in a net was at last tangled in the web of lies that he had told to everyone

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as in knotted
to twist together into a usually confused mass that darn cat tangled the yarn I was trying to knit with

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“Tangled.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tangled. Accessed 2 Dec. 2022.

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