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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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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Recent Examples of tangled
Daisy Dobrijevic, Space.com, 21 Aug. 2025
Organizations are continually adding new tools to their tech stack, but this unchecked expansion is creating a tangled web of disconnected systems, redundant apps and costly inefficiencies.
—Amit Mathradas, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2025
Merrell Readman, Travel + Leisure, 25 Aug. 2025
Published May 12 | Read More | Grad student discovers clawed creature tangled near WA lake.
—Real-Time News Team, Miami Herald, 22 Aug. 2025
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Adjective
Vast fountains of plasma sculpted by the sun's tangled magnetic fields, captured in exquisite detail by satellites.
—Daisy Dobrijevic, Space.com, 21 Aug. 2025
Organizations are continually adding new tools to their tech stack, but this unchecked expansion is creating a tangled web of disconnected systems, redundant apps and costly inefficiencies.
—Amit Mathradas, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2025
Verb
Meanwhile, the lid of the box has several hooks so your favorite necklaces can hang without getting tangled, and an elastic pocket.
—Merrell Readman, Travel + Leisure, 25 Aug. 2025
Published May 12 | Read More | Grad student discovers clawed creature tangled near WA lake.
—Real-Time News Team, Miami Herald, 22 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tangled
Adjective
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The Music City Loop combines multiple complicated aspirations dreamed up by Musk, and few of them have succeeded at accomplishing the feat they were created for.—
Charles Singh,
Nashville Tennessean,
5 Sep. 2025
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The death sets off a chain of events that forces Lilian to revisit her fractured family life and complicated bond with her ex-husband.—
Scott Roxborough,
HollywoodReporter,
5 Sep. 2025
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If you are trapped by moving water, move to the highest possible point and call 911 if possible.—
CA Weather Bot,
Sacbee.com,
6 Sep. 2025
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The Voice of Hind Rajab dramatizes the final hours of a young girl trapped under fire in Gaza.—
Scott Roxborough,
HollywoodReporter,
5 Sep. 2025
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Catcher Carson Kelly’s two-run home run in the bottom of the eighth knotted the score at 6-6 after the Cubs chipped away at a 6-1 deficit.—
Jeff Vorva,
Chicago Tribune,
2 Sep. 2025
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Sixteen of the next 17 batters went down without reaching safely before Freddie Freeman knotted the score with a solo shot.—
Fabian Ardaya,
New York Times,
25 Aug. 2025
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When my father showed the then-curator of the Musée d’Horlogerie the enamels in our collection, she was blown away by the exquisite quality and intricate details of our enamels and jeweled pieces.—
Kyle Roderick,
Forbes.com,
7 Sep. 2025
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This image depicts intricate frost formations on the frozen surface of Lake Harriet during an Arctic Blast in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on January 20, 2025.—
Joe Edwards,
MSNBC Newsweek,
7 Sep. 2025
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In addition, crucial societal and business-minded tradeoffs are fully enmeshed.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
29 Aug. 2025
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According to PwC, only 19% of younger fans watched an entire game when at home, and usually are enmeshed in another activity at the same time.—
Brian Steinberg,
Variety,
20 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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The district has tried to be conservative on replacing items as efforts to form a fire territory complicate issues of investment and ownership.—
Shelley Jones,
Chicago Tribune,
8 July 2025
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Certainly tariffs are adding to economic uncertainty and complicate decision-making for the Federal Reserve.—
Simon Moore,
Forbes.com,
17 June 2025
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For engineers and designers, this framework is like giving a GPS map through the complex terrain of foam design—saving months of trial-and-error testing.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
4 Sep. 2025
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The move would mark an important milestone for Nvidia -backed Cohesity, which shelved IPO plans in 2021 to first execute a complex merger with its rival Veritas’ data protection unit, according to Cohesity CEO Sanjay Poonen.—
Ganesh Rao,
CNBC,
4 Sep. 2025
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“Tangled.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tangled. Accessed 8 Sep. 2025.
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