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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

An overabundance of the SORLA protein protected against a number of biological processes linked to the formation of tau tangles and progression of neurodegeneration.

— Noah Lyons, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 July 2026
During this time, the brain starts to shrink, and the misfolded proteins that are a hallmark of Alzheimer’s begin to build up — sticky amyloid beta plaques in the brain and tau tangles in neurons.

— Richard Sima, Washington Post, 21 July 2026

Definition of tangles

Noun

Pulling crab traps with his three kids and the five-minute commute to work are perks of his newfound island life.

— Katie Nanton, Travel + Leisure, 2 Aug. 2026
The inspector found organic matter in the ice machine, fly traps hanging in the kitchen and a dead roach in the hand sink drain.

— Harriet Ramos, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 2 Aug. 2026

Definition of traps

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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
This might be the last chance to get these items, so check out the latest sales and savings on meshes and routers.

— George Yang, PC Magazine, 29 June 2026

Definition of meshes

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Not to mention the foreign business entanglements of his family members.

— James Robenalt, Vanity Fair, 27 July 2026
The conditions that allowed MAHA to flourish—the trust deficit, the corporate entanglements, the gap between research and community, the invisibility of public health in people’s daily lives—have been festering for decades.

— Craig Spencer, The Atlantic, 25 July 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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Evil Dead mazes have been featured in 2013, 2017 and 2023 during Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Studios Hollywood.

— Brady MacDonald, Oc Register, 21 July 2026
With their billowing sails, teakwood decks and mazes of ropes and rigging, ships like Eagle draw throngs of visitors hoping to get a glimpse of the past.

— Karissa Waddick, USA Today, 1 July 2026

Definition of mazes

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Each target may require a different approach, from robotic arms to nets, harpoons, or enclosure systems like ClearSpace's.

— Alan Bradley, Space.com, 2 Aug. 2026
The task force suggests that altering the physical environment, such as putting up nets, barriers to force drones into different flight paths, and making one’s surroundings appear uninteresting from the air can deceive drones.

— Zita Ballinger Fletcher, Forbes.com, 30 July 2026

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