as in tangle
something that catches and holds his life is greatly complicated by his romantic entanglements

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Recent Examples of entanglement The author, whose 2022 book follows an English professor’s entanglements with a young novelist, will publish Diana through Avid Reader Press in spring 2026. Seija Rankin, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Mar. 2025 The modern Republican Party stands for avoiding bloody and costly foreign entanglements while Democrats plead for endless funnels of cash for Ukraine. Mark Davis, Newsweek, 13 Mar. 2025 Whereas empathy can lead to emotional entanglement that can distort decision-making, compassionate objectivity acknowledges and validates emotions without being overtaken by them. Tim Maurer, Forbes, 23 Mar. 2025 This isn’t Conrad’s first legal entanglement over data access. Jordan Novet, CNBC, 18 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for entanglement
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Noun
  • The shoes stirred something deeper — a tangle of racial and social complexities that came with simply wanting to buy, own, or even wear them.
    Tiana Randall, Forbes.com, 1 Apr. 2025
  • Even actor Kevin Bacon has found his way into this tangle of out-of-state donors.
    Philip Elliott, Time, 31 Mar. 2025
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  • In one scene from their lives, a bear trap is intentionally left for Benjy to wander into it.
    Justin Porter, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2025
  • Man traps woman in car for days: Police A Hawaii man was arrested for allegedly trapping an elderly woman in her car for several days and later forcing her to withdraw money from her bank account, according to the Honolulu Police Department.
    Megan Forrester, ABC News, 7 Apr. 2025
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  • Its calling cards are the centerpiece (a domed metal structure adorned with leaf forms, under which many photo ops and engagements take place each year) and the labyrinth of rose beds that resemble puzzle pieces set into the ground, giving each planting its own room to grow.
    Caroline Rogers, Southern Living, 24 Mar. 2025
  • They are required to have at least one straight section and one labyrinth (three turns in quick succession without a straight section).
    Tim Genske, Forbes, 21 Mar. 2025
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  • Go deeper: How Gen Z is thinking about AI at work Teachers warn AI is impacting students' critical thinking Methodology: A Gallup Panel web survey was conducted March 6-13 with a sample of 3,465 13- to 28-year-olds living in all 50 states and Washington, D.C.
    April Rubin, Axios, 8 Apr. 2025
  • This 2-in-1 laptop will do a serviceable job of web browsing and document drafting.
    Jade Chung-Lee, PC Magazine, 7 Apr. 2025
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  • Through extremely dim, maddening office mazes, it’s discovered that McGovern’s mission is to find and interrogate Sean Mehndez, a family man addled by constant work for the autocratic Leviathan corporation.
    The New York Times, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2025
  • The project, which has turned this stretch of road into a maddening maze of orange barrels and construction equipment since its debut in October 2022, is expected to fully wrap by late July.
    John Aguilar, The Denver Post, 20 Mar. 2025

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“Entanglement.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/entanglement. Accessed 12 Apr. 2025.

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