Thesaurus results for TANGLEMENTS

tanglements

noun

plural of tanglement

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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Noun

The brain’s surface has ridges and valleys, and CTE tangles are found in the depths of those valleys, called the cortical sulci, and surround blood vessels.

— Alexandra Pattillo, Scientific American, 23 Sep. 2026
Brushing controls shedding, removes debris and prevents tangles.

— Ryan Brennan, Kansas City Star, 21 Sep. 2026

Definition of tangles

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Components such as porous meshes and foams must be manufactured at scale, incorporated into working systems, and shown to maintain their unusual corrosion resistance over long operating periods.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 3 Sep. 2026
Others still involve video to a significant degree but incorporate more explicit 3D information, like data related to positioning, meshes, and so on somewhere in the process.

— ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 13 July 2026

Definition of meshes

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The suit adds to a growing pile of legal entanglements between the federal government and the national media.

— Brian Steinberg, Variety, 21 Sep. 2026
Cassidy Teufel, deputy director at the coastal commission, said during a review of the project that seaweed farms use taut, rigid lines, not the loose fishing lines that are a leading cause of whale entanglements.

— Amy Taxin, Los Angeles Times, 10 Sep. 2026

Definition of entanglements

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And who knows if, with chef Mario Carbone, part of those labyrinths will be repurposed into wineries for fine wines.

— Marzio G. Mian, Vanity Fair, 16 June 2026
Laborious yet lithe lads and lasses have loyally leapt to luminate the lexical labyrinths of logic locking the lucrative lotto, longing to lure the lavish luxury lying latently in local landmarks.

— Jared Kaufman, Twin Cities, 28 Jan. 2026

Definition of labyrinths

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The gods themselves are also an unnerving presence, omnipresent beings of colossal power who see humans as their playthings and view Ulysses' toils as some twisted spectator sport.

— Richard Edwards, Space.com, 17 July 2026
There has to be a chance that Jos Buttler’s toils in Sri Lanka and India represent his last ventures on the international stage, and therefore the end of an era.

— Paul Newman, New York Times, 5 Mar. 2026

Definition of toils

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The policy comes as automatic renewals, confusing checkout processes, and cancellation mazes have become fixtures of the consumer experience.

— Lindsay Owens, New York Daily News, 28 Sep. 2026
New this year are two mazes, including one that intermixes a host of vintage animation, as well as a magic show collaboration with the Magic Castle.

— Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 15 Sep. 2026

Definition of mazes

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Fort Lauderlale’s popular south side beach area, where volleyball nets, grills and the annual Tortuga Music Festival usher in a steady mix of locals and visitors.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 30 Sep. 2026
But if that person were, say, a lawyer who could earn $500 per hour, then donating three hours’ worth of wages to a charity that bought anti-malarial bed nets could save several hundred people’s lives every week.

— Beatrice Nolan, Fortune, 23 Sep. 2026

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