How to Use entanglement in a Sentence

entanglement

noun
  • This is the galling thing about the GOP’s entanglement with Trump.
    Jason Linkins, The New Republic, 11 Mar. 2023
  • Snow Cone's first calf was killed by a boat, and the calf born during her entanglement has not been seen since April.
    Bailey Richards, Peoplemag, 26 Sep. 2022
  • And the one entanglement that occurred over 20 years ago did not result in a right whale death.
    Brianna Herlihy, Fox News, 1 Aug. 2023
  • Researchers blame entanglement in fishing lines and ropes as the main cause of the species’ decline.
    Kate Armanini, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Jan. 2023
  • Necropsies have been done on at least half of those whales, of which about 40% had evidence of either a ship strike or entanglement.
    Li Cohen, CBS News, 20 Jan. 2023
  • Roughly 40% showed evidence of a ship strike or entanglement connected to the cause of death.
    Jennifer A. Dlouhy, Fortune, 18 Feb. 2023
  • Yes, Karlie Kloss, who might not have been a romantic entanglement but could yes be called the love of her life, same as any of our best friends, came to the stadium and danced in the bleachers.
    Taffy Brodesser-Akner, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2023
  • One way to generate entanglement is through a process known as spin squeezing.
    IEEE Spectrum, 15 Oct. 2023
  • The average duration of a lethal right whale entanglement is about six months.
    Time, 11 Jan. 2023
  • How could entanglement possibly play a role in things so big and lumbering as black holes?
    Quanta Magazine, 14 Mar. 2024
  • This is hardly the first of the couple’s ethical entanglements.
    Prem Thakker, The New Republic, 6 Apr. 2023
  • In one scene, the three competitors enjoy a raunchy throuple entanglement on a hotel bed.
    Nikki Dobrin, Peoplemag, 5 Aug. 2023
  • This changing area is mimicked by changes to the entanglement entropy calculated in the CFT.
    Anil Ananthaswamy, Scientific American, 30 Nov. 2022
  • The concern is that entanglement in lobster fishing gear is causing serious injury and death to the whales.
    Michelle Cheng, Quartz, 29 Nov. 2022
  • Forst’s rugged-man good looks and romantic entanglements provide some heat in the chilly atmosphere.
    Andrea Duncan-Mao, Vulture, 28 Jan. 2024
  • Now the researchers are wondering whether the ice decline leads to more risks in the bowheads’ habitat, such as ship strikes or fishing gear entanglement, Szesciorka said.
    Alena Naiden, Anchorage Daily News, 20 Mar. 2023
  • What happens when entanglement and measurement duke it out in a grid of entangled qubits?
    Quanta Magazine, 21 Dec. 2023
  • Her long entanglement in the case created legal troubles for her too.
    Rachel Corbett, New York Times, 23 Aug. 2023
  • Neither the bite marks nor the entanglement in fishing gear seemed serious enough to kill the whale, the Washington Post reports, so the official cause of death remains a mystery.
    Katie Hill, Outdoor Life, 21 Feb. 2024
  • August Alsina may have found himself in a new entanglement.
    Brendan Morrow, The Week, 22 Nov. 2022
  • This entanglement is the key to understanding our true nature.
    Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 6 June 2023
  • Using entanglement, two other qubits can be roped in to make a quantum state in which all three are 0 and simultaneously all three are 1.
    Byadrian Cho, science.org, 22 Feb. 2023
  • Of those, nine have died as the result of entanglement, and at least 70 have been seen seriously injured by entanglement.
    USA TODAY, 30 Jan. 2024
  • The instantaneous action of entanglement challenged at least one of these premises, maybe both.
    Robert Lea, Popular Mechanics, 4 Oct. 2022
  • Scientists told Tigue that the best evidence so far points to ship collisions and entanglement in fishing gear as the most likely culprits.
    Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 30 Mar. 2023
  • With American encouragement and money, Bogotá rid itself of its trains and went all in on cars and a spaghetti entanglement of new roads.
    Michael Kimmelman, New York Times, 7 Dec. 2023
  • Vessel strikes and entanglements continue to be a major contributor to the deaths and injuries.
    Li Cohen, CBS News, 5 Mar. 2024
  • Fashion, with its ever more complicated dilemmas, and its naughty entanglement with all the facets of capitalism, seems like the stuff of an epic novel.
    Rachel Tashjian, Washington Post, 21 Aug. 2023
  • The space-time bridge becomes a quantum mechanical link known as entanglement.
    Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 23 Mar. 2023
  • The restrictions are designed to protect the North Atlantic right whale, which numbers less than 340 and is vulnerable to entanglement in fishing gear.
    Patrick Whittle, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Oct. 2022

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