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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He was involved in assembling Epstein's complex web of businesses, properties and legal teams for a voluminous tangle of civil and criminal matters.—
Graham Kates,
CBS News,
19 Mar. 2026 -
Chapek’s woes as Disney chief have been well documented, from his tangles in Florida to an ugly public spat with Scarlett Johansson to alienating top executives by removing creative decision-making authority in a hugely unpopular restructuring.—
Jill Goldsmith,
Deadline,
18 Mar. 2026
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What the trap revealed, aside from being the first of its kind to be discovered in picturesque surroundings, was a terrible ordeal for whale and human alike.—
Maria Mocerino,
Interesting Engineering,
22 Mar. 2026
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Inspectors found a dead rodent on an at-home sticky trap and noted that the back area smelled of rodent urine.—
Lillie Davidson,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
21 Mar. 2026
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It’s expected to bring together ChatGPT, its Codex coding tools, and its Atlas web browser.—
James Peckham,
PC Magazine,
20 Mar. 2026
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Over time, Norris also became a web phenomenon, the subject of memes and jokes that parodied his image of invincibility.—
Valentina Colosimo,
Vanity Fair,
20 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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Her life as portrayed on Mormon Wives is that of a loose cannon who struggles to liberate herself from toxic romantic entanglements, running directly counter to The Bachelor’s fantasy of happily-ever-after.—
Rebecca Jennings,
Vulture,
20 Mar. 2026
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There is little public appetite for entanglement in a Middle Eastern conflict, particularly one that could expose Japanese shipping, infrastructure or citizens to retaliation.—
Hanako Montgomery,
CNN Money,
19 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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The puck went between Gustavsson's legs into the crease and Cernak pounced, sending it into the open net.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
25 Mar. 2026
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Blackstone’s investment in the Royal Challengers is coming from its perpetual private equity strategy; these evergreen funds are designed for high-net-worth individual investors.—
Luisa Beltran,
Sportico.com,
24 Mar. 2026
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“Tanglement.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tanglement. Accessed 26 Mar. 2026.
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