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

As beta-amyloid levels rise in the brain, tangles of proteins called tau begin gathering inside brain cells, causing neurons to collapse and die.

— Sandee LaMotte, CNN Money, 15 July 2026
The p-tau217 test measures a form of tau that correlates with how much plaque buildup someone has and gives a hint about tangles, Sperling said.

— ABC News, ABC News, 15 July 2026

Definition of tangles

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The district’s surveillance traps show numbers of Culex mosquitos — the primary vectors of West Nile virus — are at their highest.

— Alula Alderson, Sacbee.com, 14 July 2026
The federal agency detailed removal efforts on its website, including traps baited with eggs and trackers to lure tegus and study their movements.

— Rylan DiGiacomo-Rapp, The Orlando Sentinel, 13 July 2026

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Common threats include biotoxins, chemical contaminants, disease, and fishing gear entanglements, experts say.

— Mark Price, Charlotte Observer, 6 July 2026
Speaking in Portugal this week, Warsh seemed keen to move the Fed through judicial entanglements and get on with the task at hand.

— Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 3 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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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
Both were premised on the idea of frictionless ease, liberating their users from outmoded toils.

— Jake Lundberg, The Atlantic, 19 Feb. 2026

Definition of toils

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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
To test that, the final group completed cognitively demanding games such as mazes and shape puzzles called tangrams that contained no academic content.

— Supreet Kaur, Scientific American, 10 June 2026

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