as in tangles
something that catches and holds
legal tanglements stemming from the museum's refusal to return the looted carvings
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Peralta leaders had kicked around the idea for years but avoided discussing it in concrete terms, with bureaucratic tangles often getting in the way.—
Shomik Mukherjee,
Mercury News,
23 Aug. 2025 -
Lithium orotate helped the mice reduce production of the amyloid plaques and tau tangles, and allowed the microglial cells to remove the plaques much more effectively.—
The Washington Post,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
19 Aug. 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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Of course, there are traps to avoid.—
S.W. Miliano,
Forbes.com,
2 Sep. 2025
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DCaaS redirects this from linear consultancy hours to always-on insight meshes.—
Akhilesh Sharma,
Forbes.com,
28 Aug. 2025
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Stylistically, Wilson’s top-end speed and willingness to go over the middle to make contested catches meshes with Rodgers.—
Mike DeFabo,
New York Times,
19 Aug. 2025
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Nurse Chapel concludes that sleep, friends, and romantic entanglements have been hampering her productivity.—
Richard Edwards,
Space.com,
29 Aug. 2025
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Trump must decide whether to double down on old GOP orthodoxy or align with a base increasingly skeptical of foreign entanglements.—
Faisal Kutty,
MSNBC Newsweek,
27 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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Her books, with their Borgesian labyrinths and witchy symmetries, sometimes flirt with nonsense.—
Katy Waldman,
New Yorker,
18 Aug. 2025
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This has been a turbulent window for Villa, not only against the backdrop of such challenges but also the toils involved in moving current players on.—
Jacob Tanswell,
New York Times,
27 Aug. 2025
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Hidden Trails and Hidden Hills are family-friendly farms that have corn mazes, pumpkin patches, and petting zoos.—
Karthika Gupta,
Travel + Leisure,
15 Aug. 2025
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This will be the third year in a row for the Saw and Conjuring mazes based on two of Hollywood’s most enduring horror film franchises.—
Brady MacDonald,
Oc Register,
11 Aug. 2025
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The trawling nets of commercial fisherman greedily cull all of the sea life in their path.—
Suwanna Gauntlett Upjohn,
Forbes.com,
31 Aug. 2025
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Off the coast of Malaysia, trawlers hauled in their nets and sorted through the catch.—
Aspen Pflughoeft,
Miami Herald,
29 Aug. 2025
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“Tanglements.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tanglements. Accessed 5 Sep. 2025.
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