tanglement

noun

ˈtaŋ-gəl-mənt How to pronounce tanglement (audio)
Definition of tanglementnext
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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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tanglement
  1. tangle
  2. trap
  3. web
  4. labyrinth
  5. entanglement
  6. maze
  7. net
Noun
  • The Bell Jar Tracing the tangle of a new job in New York City and the simultaneous onrush of clinical depression, The Bell Jar brings the interior world of central character Esther Greenwood into stunning relief.
    — Caroline Rogers, Southern Living, 22 Aug. 2026
  • Penske has designed tracks through city blocks, but never through both federal and municipal grounds with a tangle of buildings that include the Department of Justice, the Federal Trade Commission and the National Archives.
    — Adam Kilgore, New York Times, 20 Aug. 2026
Definition of tangle
Noun
  • The team is analyzing microplastics painstakingly collected from plants, rocks, water samples and sticky traps erected along the shoreline.
    — Michael Hawthorne, Chicago Tribune, 23 Aug. 2026
  • This kit makes both jobs simple with tools for cleaning up to 15-foot vents with flexible rods, specialty brushes that fit inside lint traps, and tweezers to reach into all the nooks and crannies.
    — Caley Sturgill, Southern Living, 22 Aug. 2026
Definition of trap
Noun
  • The platform, which is now in beta, aims to give its users a one-stop shop to create games and publish them for mobile and web platforms, with support for TVs and Steam coming soon, and monetize them.
    — Corbin Bolies, Variety, 25 Aug. 2026
  • The bootloading process is now streamlined enough that it can be completed without any downloads through a web interface after connecting the headset to a PC.
    — Kyle Orland, ArsTechnica, 25 Aug. 2026
Definition of web
Noun
  • The chase that follows finds Reacher and Green eluding several officers in Magic Gardens, the South Street art space dominated by Philadelphia artist Isaiah Zagar’s multimedia mosaic labyrinth.
    — Chris Klimek, Vulture, 26 Aug. 2026
  • But the Gregorys noticed Atlantans, or others familiar with our city’s quirky labyrinth of Peachtrees, were seeing the Queens song and weighing in.
    — Doug Turnbull, AJC.com, 23 Aug. 2026
Definition of labyrinth
Noun
  • His sliding popularity, flip-flopping on key personnel decisions, and entanglement in corruption allegations, have taken their toll on his poll ratings.
    — Nick Paton Walsh, CNN Money, 19 Aug. 2026
  • Unlike circuits that store classical bits, qubits can exhibit strange phenomena like superposition and entanglement that give them extra computational power.
    — Ben Brubaker, Quanta Magazine, 19 Aug. 2026
Definition of entanglement
Noun
  • The second was a plus-maze task in which the mouse learns to navigate its way to a reward.
    — Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 22 Aug. 2026
  • Tokenization brings that maze into view and offers a way to redesign parts of it with greater clarity, speed and coordination.
    — Federico Sendra, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2026
Definition of maze
Noun
  • But like Dutch Bros, Scooter’s Coffee and non-coffee beverage brands such as Swig, casting a wide net has become key in recent years.
    — Michael Deeds, Idaho Statesman, 26 Aug. 2026
  • To help subsidize costs for members, HAAM partnered with Central Health, which is Travis County's public hospital district — a type of health agency in Texas charged with using tax dollars to fund safety-net healthcare for poor residents.
    — Olivia Aldridge, NPR, 23 Aug. 2026
Definition of net
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“Tanglement.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tanglement. Accessed 29 Aug. 2026.

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