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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
Identity theft companies can monitor personal information like your Social Security number, phone number and email address and alert you if it is being sold on the dark web or being used to open an account.
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Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 6 Sep. 2025
Cloudflare, just like custodians of all web properties, has an affirmative duty to secure the service.
—Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 4 Sep. 2025
The decision protects one of the most lucrative deals in Big Technology - Google’s estimated $20 billion annual payment to Apple for prime placement in its Safari web browser.
—Trefis Team, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Google scored a major victory Tuesday when a federal judge declined to accept a DOJ plan that would have forced the company to sell off its Chrome web browser.
—Sylvan Lane, The Hill, 3 Sep. 2025
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Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 6 Sep. 2025
Cloudflare, just like custodians of all web properties, has an affirmative duty to secure the service.
—Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 4 Sep. 2025
The decision protects one of the most lucrative deals in Big Technology - Google’s estimated $20 billion annual payment to Apple for prime placement in its Safari web browser.
—Trefis Team, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Google scored a major victory Tuesday when a federal judge declined to accept a DOJ plan that would have forced the company to sell off its Chrome web browser.
—Sylvan Lane, The Hill, 3 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for web
Noun
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English also says that protective or tight styles can also lead to matting if left in too long, by compacting tangles at the base.—
Grace McCarty,
Glamour,
5 Sep. 2025
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Aside from Blast vacuuming, the X9 improves on the X8 by adding zero-tangle technology to the side brush and the main brush.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
4 Sep. 2025
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Like some of the ambush drones recently seen in Ukraine, Viper can have small solar cells, powering its sensors and communications for an indefinite period, as well as slowly recharging the battery.—
David Hambling,
Forbes.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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The mission has also lost two members of its force in gang ambushes; while one has been confirmed dead the other is still been regarded as missing even though local media has reported him as dead.—
Jacqueline Charles,
Miami Herald,
1 Sep. 2025
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Ulloa was among dozens of men that day who boarded their small glass-fiber boats in groups of three, armed with nets and lines to hunt for tuna, snapper and groupers to bring back and sell in Caracas.—
Andrew Raine,
CNN Money,
4 Sep. 2025
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At the event, volunteers were armed with large white butterfly nets and headed down the Hank Aaron Trail to track down and tag the super generation’s monarch butterflies, Steinhauer said.—
Alyssa N. Salcedo,
jsonline.com,
4 Sep. 2025
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The man, whom the magazine did not identify citing privacy concerns, cut his shin on a bait fish trap on a pier in an inlet that leads to the bay.—
Phaedra Trethan,
USA Today,
3 Sep. 2025
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Her latest project, monitoring 50 camera traps in the understudied Atascosa highlands region in southern Arizona resulted in a remarkable discovery.—
John Leos,
AZCentral.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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When a deadline is looming, which is pretty much always, the artist Takeru Hokazono’s one-room apartment in Tokyo begins to resemble a labyrinth.—
Matt Alt,
New Yorker,
25 Aug. 2025
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Pet sharks and underground labyrinths, unwelcome doppelgängers and vegetable-hungry monster-rabbits, rogue planets heading for Earth and diabolical Red Wizards—what do all these share in common?—
Travis Bean,
Forbes.com,
22 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Corn maze farewell This year, Ackerman is setting up his corn maze for the last time.—
Katherine Laidlaw,
HubSpot,
5 Sep. 2025
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In the fall, before its Christmas tree sales begin, Goebel Farms has pumpkins for sale and a corn maze to explore.—
Katie Wiseman,
IndyStar,
5 Sep. 2025
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Humpback whales — which are found throughout all the Earth’s oceans — regularly face threats from entanglements with fishing gear, in addition to vessel strikes and ocean noise, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.—
Brendan Rascius,
Miami Herald,
4 Sep. 2025
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Measures would typically be taken to protect business continuity, prevent unwanted entanglement and maintain control of her brand.—
Megan Cartwright,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 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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As to The Naked Gun and especially Happy Gilmore 2, both of these new films are driving through the morass of media content with a lot of years on their tire treads.—
Howard Homonoff,
Forbes.com,
6 Aug. 2025
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“Web.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/web. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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