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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English also says that protective or tight styles can also lead to matting if left in too long, by compacting tangles at the base.—
Grace McCarty,
Glamour,
5 Sep. 2025 -
Aside from Blast vacuuming, the X9 improves on the X8 by adding zero-tangle technology to the side brush and the main brush.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
4 Sep. 2025
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The man, whom the magazine did not identify citing privacy concerns, cut his shin on a bait fish trap on a pier in an inlet that leads to the bay.—
Phaedra Trethan,
USA Today,
3 Sep. 2025
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Her latest project, monitoring 50 camera traps in the understudied Atascosa highlands region in southern Arizona resulted in a remarkable discovery.—
John Leos,
AZCentral.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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Beneficiaries would have to verify their own identities by using an often-confusing web portal or by traveling to a field office to do it in person.—
Eli Hager,
ProPublica,
8 Sep. 2025
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Amazon took a hit as some investors feared its web services division was falling behind Microsoft’s Azure.—
Julie Coleman,
CNBC,
8 Sep. 2025
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When a deadline is looming, which is pretty much always, the artist Takeru Hokazono’s one-room apartment in Tokyo begins to resemble a labyrinth.—
Matt Alt,
New Yorker,
25 Aug. 2025
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Pet sharks and underground labyrinths, unwelcome doppelgängers and vegetable-hungry monster-rabbits, rogue planets heading for Earth and diabolical Red Wizards—what do all these share in common?—
Travis Bean,
Forbes.com,
22 Aug. 2025
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Humpback whales — which are found throughout all the Earth’s oceans — regularly face threats from entanglements with fishing gear, in addition to vessel strikes and ocean noise, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.—
Brendan Rascius,
Miami Herald,
4 Sep. 2025
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Measures would typically be taken to protect business continuity, prevent unwanted entanglement and maintain control of her brand.—
Megan Cartwright,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 Aug. 2025
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Corn maze farewell This year, Ackerman is setting up his corn maze for the last time.—
Katherine Laidlaw,
HubSpot,
5 Sep. 2025
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In the fall, before its Christmas tree sales begin, Goebel Farms has pumpkins for sale and a corn maze to explore.—
Katie Wiseman,
IndyStar,
5 Sep. 2025
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Ulloa was among dozens of men that day who boarded their small glass-fiber boats in groups of three, armed with nets and lines to hunt for tuna, snapper and groupers to bring back and sell in Caracas.—
Andrew Raine,
CNN Money,
4 Sep. 2025
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At the event, volunteers were armed with large white butterfly nets and headed down the Hank Aaron Trail to track down and tag the super generation’s monarch butterflies, Steinhauer said.—
Alyssa N. Salcedo,
jsonline.com,
4 Sep. 2025
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“Tanglement.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tanglement. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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