web

noun

ˈweb How to pronounce web (audio)
Definition of webnext
1
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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2
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 There's no way to remove either of these elements from Mozilla's web browser. — James Peckham, PC Magazine, 17 Aug. 2026 Certain interactive web services can benefit from that speed. — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 16 Aug. 2026 Hubble’s images reveal an intricate web of gas and dust spreading outward from the explosion’s center, where a rapidly spinning neutron star remains. — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 15 Aug. 2026 As of last year, the page named Rock as CEO; Scott Evans as its chief revenue officer; Ofer Barniv as its head of day-to-day operations; Jordan Jones as web developer. — Daniel Libit, Sportico.com, 14 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for web
Recent Examples of Synonyms for web
  1. tangle
  2. ambush
  3. net
  4. trap
  5. labyrinth
  6. maze
  7. entanglement
  8. morass
Noun
  • In the nearly 3,000 patients who donated their brains to science, the brains of those who took estrogen were less likely to show neurobiological hallmarks of Alzheimer’s disease, such as beta-amyloid plaques or tangles of tau protein.
    — Jackie Flynn Mogensen, Scientific American, 12 Aug. 2026
  • It can be set up in under a minute without a tangle of wires to trip over.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 12 Aug. 2026
Definition of tangle
Noun
  • Luigi Mangione pleaded guilty in Manhattan federal court to stalking charges in the 2024 ambush killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, a move that could upend a looming state murder trial.
    — Michael R. Sisak, Los Angeles Times, 14 Aug. 2026
  • Stassi is no stranger to an ambush; one of her most iconic Vanderpump Rules scenes remains one of the best ambushes reality TV’s ever seen.
    — Caroline Framke, Vulture, 7 Aug. 2026
Definition of ambush
Noun
  • Last Friday, researchers from Cal State Long Beach's Shark Lab brought a net to Seal Beach and collected a few hundred stingrays in just one area.
    — Michele Gile, CBS News, 14 Aug. 2026
  • The cast are clustered around a table of props and despite her disappointment at the lack of hag wigs, Dale Dickey is flapping a fishing net like a seafaring matador.
    — Antonia Blyth, Deadline, 14 Aug. 2026
Definition of net
Noun
  • The trap is that the most tempting move an owner could make with this data is some form of monetization.
    — Sandy Carter, Forbes.com, 17 Aug. 2026
  • For them, character not only exists but functions as a compound, a cell, a trap.
    — Becca Rothfeld, New Yorker, 16 Aug. 2026
Definition of trap
Noun
  • Tomorrow’s sessions are similar, with the addition of a fly-fishing casting lesson and a meditative stroll around the on-site labyrinth.
    — Laura Dannen Redman, Robb Report, 13 Aug. 2026
  • Carmen receives them with love and displays them in that labyrinth of Cuban-ness, as colorful and sometimes as moving as the nation’s history and its exile.
    — Sarah Moreno August 7, Miami Herald, 7 Aug. 2026
Definition of labyrinth
Noun
  • In the Old City, Jewish men in black hats and tzitzit tassels, Muslim women in hijabs and Christian priests in flowing robes walk past each other daily in the maze of stone alleyways.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 14 Aug. 2026
  • Inside, the moodily-lit, maze-like dining room seats 500, and also includes a gift shop, on-site brewery, and attached pizza and sushi restaurants.
    — Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 12 Aug. 2026
Definition of maze
Noun
  • His trailblazing act had been reduced to a joyless recitation of his legal entanglements.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2026
  • Trump strode into office for a second term vowing to avoid lengthy and expensive military entanglements.
    — Konstantin Toropin, Fortune, 15 Aug. 2026
Definition of entanglement
Noun
  • The solution for all of this is the same that one that helped the NBA out of its morass two decades ago.
    — Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 12 Aug. 2026
  • There is also crypto tax software that can help investors sort through the tax morass, Walter said.
    — Greg Iacurci, CNBC, 5 Aug. 2026
Definition of morass

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