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as in tangle
something that catches and holds
he was caught in the web of branches she was trapped by her own web of lies
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as in ambush
a device or scheme for capturing another by surprise
an ingenious web that was spun by undercover agents going after drug dealers
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Recent Examples of web
That was an enticing job listing on the Fair’s web site.
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Teri Sforza, Oc Register, 1 Aug. 2025
Figma is used to design web and mobile application interfaces.
—Bloomberg, Mercury News, 31 July 2025
The Talos post was published around the same time that the dark web site belonging to BlackSuit began displaying a message saying the site had been seized in Operation CheckMate.
—Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 26 July 2025
As the newspaper printing was phased out, the number of telephone calls to the toll-free number also dropped and the number of web searches exploded.
—Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 25 July 2025
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Teri Sforza, Oc Register, 1 Aug. 2025
Figma is used to design web and mobile application interfaces.
—Bloomberg, Mercury News, 31 July 2025
The Talos post was published around the same time that the dark web site belonging to BlackSuit began displaying a message saying the site had been seized in Operation CheckMate.
—Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 26 July 2025
As the newspaper printing was phased out, the number of telephone calls to the toll-free number also dropped and the number of web searches exploded.
—Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 25 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for web
Noun
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At the river’s edge, a quarter-mile-long Mitsubishi factory was a mountainous tangle of steel.—
Charles Pellegrino,
Rolling Stone,
6 Aug. 2025
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In contrast with the tangle of criminal cases which mostly stalled against Trump, Brazilian courts moved swiftly against Bolsonaro, threatening to end his political career and fracture his right-wing movement.—
Ricardo Brito,
USA Today,
5 Aug. 2025
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This betrayal directly led to a fatal ambush in the Philippines where David’s entire U.S. intelligence team was wiped out, except for him.—
Isabella Wandermurem,
Time,
13 Aug. 2025
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The systematic obstruction of congressional oversight, inhumane detention conditions and courthouse ambush operation at 26 Federal Plaza represent a fundamental threat to the rule of law.—
Murad Awawdeh,
New York Daily News,
30 July 2025
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After a short rally, Marla knocked the ball into the net.—
Dhruv Khullar,
New Yorker,
11 Aug. 2025
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Charley’s shot deflected off the head of Ary Borges and into the net to draw Orlando to 1-1.—
Kyle Foley,
The Orlando Sentinel,
10 Aug. 2025
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There is 24/7 surveillance on these traps so the FWNC&R team can see if one is set off.—
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
2 Aug. 2025
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Cleanup brush and leaf piles, which provide excellent cover for voles. Use a trap.—
Arricca Elin SanSone,
Southern Living,
2 Aug. 2025
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But these products were accompanied by a labyrinth of names and uses: GPT-4o and GPT-4o mini and GPT-4.1; o1-mini and o1-pro; o3 and o3-pro and o4-mini; and so on.—
Matteo Wong,
The Atlantic,
7 Aug. 2025
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For over two decades, search engines have served as ubiquitous routers directing billions of clickers through the labyrinth of the internet.—
Perry Carpenter,
Forbes.com,
29 July 2025
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The length of any single path could be unimaginably long and require taking millions or even billions of steps in the maze, says Sergei Gukov, the recent study’s senior author and a professor of mathematics at Caltech.—
Deni Ellis Béchard,
Scientific American,
11 Aug. 2025
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Other new attractions coming this fall will include a haunted maze, scare zone and live show.—
Sydney Sasser,
Charlotte Observer,
11 Aug. 2025
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Devon would be a welcome way out of all this entanglement, but can James see a path forward with Dani?—
Ryan Coleman Published,
EW.com,
11 Aug. 2025
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Many foreign leaders, lobbyists, and executives who might otherwise have paid handsomely for the Trump hotel’s location and luxury stayed elsewhere, fearing entanglement in an influence scandal.—
David D. Kirkpatrick,
New Yorker,
11 Aug. 2025
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That failure is symbolized most starkly in the mute dissolution of his own group, formed to help save Chicago from its pension morass but which instead silently acquiesced in making that threat markedly worse.—
The Editorial Board,
Chicago Tribune,
12 Aug. 2025
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The complexities of the issues and the broad array of competing stakeholders, along with lawsuits which often delay progress for years at a time, all combine to create a permitting morass which is extremely hard to untangle.—
David Blackmon,
Forbes.com,
30 July 2025
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“Web.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/web. Accessed 19 Aug. 2025.
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