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
Rosie Marder,
Travel + Leisure,
23 June 2026
Funded by the National Science Foundation, our multidisciplinary team blended our expertise in causal inference, sustainability and cybersecurity, to work on the tangled question of what people do with their consumer electronics when they’re done using them.
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Eric Williams,
Fortune,
21 June 2026
Dolores Brown,
Outdoor Life,
17 June 2026
Equally difficult is engaging with an artist and the discourse around them without getting tangled up in their narrative web.
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Sheldon Pearce,
NPR,
16 June 2026
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Adjective
Unlike wired headphones, which can easily become tangled, break, or offer less effective noise isolation, a high-quality pair of noise-canceling headphones can make even an economy seat feel a little more luxurious.
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Rosie Marder,
Travel + Leisure,
23 June 2026
Funded by the National Science Foundation, our multidisciplinary team blended our expertise in causal inference, sustainability and cybersecurity, to work on the tangled question of what people do with their consumer electronics when they’re done using them.
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Eric Williams,
Fortune,
21 June 2026
Verb
The two top packs flew off, and the third tangled in the cinch rope and wound around Tootsie’s leg.
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Dolores Brown,
Outdoor Life,
17 June 2026
Equally difficult is engaging with an artist and the discourse around them without getting tangled up in their narrative web.
—
Sheldon Pearce,
NPR,
16 June 2026
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But a closer examination paints a more complicated picture.
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The city also has some of the world’s most complicated rules about air-conditioning installation.
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It was lost to a natural disaster and then became trapped in a system that increasingly treats health care infrastructure as a financial asset rather than a public necessity.
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The raw materials required, like bismuth and tellurium, are rare, expensive, and trapped in chaotic global supply chains.
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Game 1 Saint Paul knotted at 2-all through three innings before the visiting Storm Chasers put up four runs in the fourth and five more in the sixth to turn a tight game into a 12-4 blowout.
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Another guy was wearing a Knicks flag as a cape, two of its corners knotted at his throat.
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Coben, who also serves as an executive producer, explains the difficulty of creating the intricate inner worlds of each character and their doubts about David, all while dropping hints that reveal David's innocence in each episode.
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The Arabesque necklace, for example, which requires 1,450 hours of work, features intricate rose gold illuminated by 18 fancy rose-cut diamonds.
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Stocks of companies enmeshed in the artificial-intelligence industry also jumped.
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Nevertheless, Christianity was enmeshed in public life.
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These are common but complicate long-term planning for federal agencies.
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Despite differing views on a variety of security issues, the group, like Gilpatric’s, reached a clear consensus: nuclear proliferation by any additional country would diminish U.S. power, complicate strategic planning, and increase the likelihood of nuclear use, accidents, and disasters.
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Storms involve complex flows originating over a wide region and evolving in complicated ways.
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Police say the violence on Sydney’s streets is being orchestrated from abroad – and teenagers are being lured into the complex web of gang warfare with the promise of fast cash.
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“Tangled.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tangled. Accessed 1 Jul. 2026.
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