as in tangle
something that catches and holds
a married woman hopelessly caught in the toils of an extramarital affair
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as in labors
to devote serious and sustained effort
toiled for many years on the mammoth outdoor sculpture
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for toils
Noun
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The possible legal tangle between Minnesota and the Trump administration mirrors a similar situation between the administration and Maine, whose leaders have also refused to follow Trump’s anti-trans sports order.—
Abby Monteil,
Them.,
23 Apr. 2025 -
Bateman and his team had been studying tau tangles, the abnormal clumps of protein that form inside the neurons of people with Alzheimer's.—
Jon Hamilton,
NPR,
2 Apr. 2025
Noun
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But the Knicks can’t fall for the trap, and Brunson, who finished with 34 points on 12-of-27 shooting from the field to go with eight assists on the night, had a frustrating start to his evening.—
Kristian Winfield,
New York Daily News,
20 Apr. 2025
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Europe is wary of sleepwalking back into the trap of reliance on Russian energy resources that caused an energy crisis at the outset of the 2022 invasion and mounting speculation that Europe might reopen its taps has sparked pushback from key European voices.—
Ariel Cohen,
Forbes.com,
19 Apr. 2025
Verb
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Additionally, the jail struggles to provide adequate food, and unsanitary food distribution practices have left detainees vulnerable to malnutrition, pest infestations and other harms.—
Dan Perry,
Newsweek,
4 Jan. 2025
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But Moore sometimes struggles to take responsibility in the way expected of leaders.—
Colin Pascal,
Baltimore Sun,
2 Jan. 2025
Noun
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In 2020, the Justice Department, joined by a group of states, accused Google of illegally stifling competition by paying the makers of web browsers and phones to set Google as their default search engine.—
John Ruwitch,
NPR,
20 Apr. 2025
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Our primary overall benchmark, UL's PCMark 10, puts a system through its paces in productivity apps ranging from web browsing to word processing and spreadsheet work.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
19 Apr. 2025
Verb
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Eggers and his go-to production designer Craig Lathrop also put a unique emphasis on building realistic worlds—their production design strives extra hard to close gaps between Eggers’s olden aesthetic and the modern audience’s perception.—
Maya Ibbitson,
Architectural Digest,
23 Dec. 2024
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The company strives to be more than just a pet product brand.—
FunnyFuzzy Contributor,
Forbes,
23 Dec. 2024
Noun
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At the time, some CBS executives had an interest in avoiding legal entanglements with that company.—
Brian Steinberg,
Variety,
29 Apr. 2025
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Then the story becomes the entanglement of Mike, Isaac ad Daniel.—
Mary Ann Grossmann,
Twin Cities,
27 Apr. 2025
Verb
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The former calls for a counterfactual view of how testing works; the latter calls for political will and policy ideas not currently in evidence.—
Peter Greene,
Forbes,
30 Nov. 2024
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The office also works with the Connecticut State Police Fire and Explosion Investigation Unit, which investigates the cause and origin of fires and arson.—
Sean Krofssik,
Hartford Courant,
30 Nov. 2024
Noun
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The movie’s pivot to vampires is a supernatural vision of the real-life snares set for great Black musicians.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
17 Apr. 2025
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Hungry Lion Records grants him the space to do so with an almost-morose mixture of trap snares and synths that invites listeners to focus on his soul-baring lyrics.—
Kyle Denis,
Billboard,
3 Apr. 2025
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“Toils.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/toils. Accessed 3 May. 2025.
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