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

Both amyloid beta and tau are normally present in healthy brains; the plaques and tangles are abnormal aggregations of these molecules.

— Manvir Singh, New Yorker, 2 Nov. 2026
The shampoo didn’t strip the tester’s already-dry hair, and a two-minute conditioner left her tangles smooth enough to finger-comb.

— Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, Kansas City Star, 21 Oct. 2026

Definition of tangles

Noun

The team said traps with adjustable volumes could also accommodate more atoms in future experiments.

— Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 7 Nov. 2026
Claxton also will be expected to advance the ball out of the backcourt when guards come under siege from high traps, a consistent pattern from opposing defenses because of the Bulls’ tendency to turn the ball over.

— Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 6 Nov. 2026

Definition of traps

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But crucially, because the mesh can be seamlessly integrated into tissue, there’s nothing preventing significantly larger meshes being used to generate more power.

— Edd Gent, IEEE Spectrum, 29 Oct. 2026
Joan realizes that her mother’s vanishing meshes with a larger tapestry of tragedy that has plagued their family over the years.

— Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 23 Oct. 2026

Definition of meshes

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The commercial crab season has seen yearly delays for most of the last decade, due to entanglements and domoic acid concerns.

— Anne Ewbank, Sacbee.com, 2 Nov. 2026
Officials said the delay is required due to the number of humpback whale entanglements so far this year.

— Tim Fang, CBS News, 2 Nov. 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

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