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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But every week could bring a new philosophical-technical tangle.—
Eric Boodman,
Vulture,
25 Mar. 2026 -
Florida’s chances of winning a mid-January game at Vanderbilt were slipping when video coordinator Nolan Crist spotted an on-court tangle.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
25 Mar. 2026
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And so many people back then were in a trap.—
Vinson Cunningham,
New Yorker,
29 Mar. 2026
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These torons act as microscopic traps for light.—
Rupendra Brahambhatt,
Interesting Engineering,
29 Mar. 2026
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Randolph’s body vaulted off the car, creating a web of cracks in the driver’s side windshield.—
Emerson Clarridge
Updated March 27,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
28 Mar. 2026
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The scandal is now expanding into an international investigation, placing Miami at the center of a complex web of shell companies, offshore transfers and opaque financial flows.—
Antonio María Delgado,
Miami Herald,
27 Mar. 2026
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To claim a straight line of descent from a father’s grief for a work as multifaceted as Hamlet is to mistake a labyrinth for a corridor.—
Rhoda Feng,
Vulture,
23 Mar. 2026
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The town kept its medieval street plan after the 1693 rebuild, creating a vertical labyrinth where staircases become streets.—
Jenn Rice,
Vogue,
18 Mar. 2026
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The first year is particularly dangerous for whales due to a combination of factors, including boat strikes, entanglement in fishing gear, and ingesting plastic.—
Laura Baisas,
Popular Science,
26 Mar. 2026
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These days, sei whales are threatened by propeller strikes from seagoing vessels, entanglement in fishing gear, underwater noise from human activity and changing environmental conditions.—
Thomas Tracy,
New York Daily News,
26 Mar. 2026
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This technical maze is among the challenges that platforms like YouTube, Amazon Prime Channels, Roku and Spectrum are trying to solve.—
Andrew Marchand,
New York Times,
25 Mar. 2026
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Photos and video show the explorers squeezing through jagged crevices deep inside the karsts, using flashlights to guide them further along an otherwise pitch-black maze of rocky burrows.—
Emily Mae Czachor,
CBS News,
24 Mar. 2026
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Hughes -- who also had two assists -- added his 22nd goal of the season into an empty net with 31 seconds left.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
30 Mar. 2026
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As federal and state authorities intensify efforts to contain the spill and clean up beaches, fisherman have struggled to make ends meet as they have been forced to almost completely halt fishing to prevent boat engines and nets from being contaminated with oil, losing their main source of income.—
Félix Márquez,
Los Angeles Times,
29 Mar. 2026
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“Tanglement.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tanglement. Accessed 30 Mar. 2026.
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