as in tangle
something that catches and holds legal tanglements stemming from the museum's refusal to return the looted carvings

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Noun
  • In my experience, most sea salt sprays require some sort of trade-off: either tons of volume but tangles, or great wave definition but very little body.
    Ariel Wodarcyk, Glamour, 26 June 2025
  • One of the most aggressive garden invaders, bindweed rapidly rambles through perennials and shrubs, creating a leafy tangle of stems and foliage.
    Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 24 June 2025
Noun
  • Wolves are killed across the Northern Rockies using steel-jawed traps, neck snares, packs of dogs and even snowmobiles.
    Jim Martin, Denver Post, 27 June 2025
  • Furthermore, Indigenous peoples used Amelanchier branches to craft arrow shafts, baskets, ropes, fish traps, and tools for unearthing root crops, writes Jeffrey A. Hart.
    The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 27 June 2025
Noun
  • Identity Theft companies can monitor personal information like your Social Security Number (SSN), phone number, and email address and alert you if it is being sold on the dark web or being used to open an account.
    Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 1 July 2025
  • While a recent News Corp investor report said the Post’s web traffic had dipped, the national media’s focus on Mamdani and his plans to change New York could provide good fodder for the paper and segments on Fox News.
    Max Tani, semafor.com, 30 June 2025
Noun
  • Each insurance company seems to have its own labyrinth of portals and billing procedures.
    Paulina Wierzbicka, Forbes.com, 26 June 2025
  • Deep beneath the Zagros Mountains in central Iran, in a labyrinth of fortified tunnels outside the city of Natanz, centrifuges spun at speeds too fast for the eye to track.
    Nik Popli, Time, 19 June 2025
Noun
  • Hers is a direct critique of the banalities of global capitalism and its entanglement with labor and production, told through a body of work that is at once familiar yet strange, moving between the real and the fictional to fascinating and powerful effect.
    Nargess Banks, Forbes.com, 25 June 2025
  • Their fearlessness is grounded in training and in seeing the Middle East as a limited operation in the future, after more than two decades of divisive and protracted entanglements — in Afghanistan, Iraq and beyond — which Trump had campaigned on ending.
    Adam Carlson, People.com, 25 June 2025
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  • The locations are based on Universal’s successful Halloween Horror Nights in Florida and California, which feature elaborate haunted houses and mazes.
    Alex Weprin, HollywoodReporter, 26 June 2025
  • The Las Vegas location will open with four haunted mazes.
    Dewayne Bevil, The Orlando Sentinel, 26 June 2025
Noun
  • With a real-time net worth of $11.5 billion, Sarath is among the wealthiest in Thailand.
    Phisanu Phromchanya, Forbes.com, 26 June 2025
  • These include misleading addresses like panel spectrum net and spectrum ticket net.
    Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 25 June 2025
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“Tanglement.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tanglement. Accessed 10 Jul. 2025.

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