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 In episode 12, Jamie makes his feelings about Claire and John’s entanglement clear in a long, heated sequence where Jamie and Claire are working through their own emotions in real time. Max Gao, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Jan. 2025 This allowed the nascent nation to develop its interests without foreign entanglements. Monica Duffy Toft, The Conversation, 13 Jan. 2025 Read Next National Whale entanglements reach 6-year high on the West Coast, report says. Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 10 Jan. 2025 The agreement is intended to minimize bycatch — the accidental entanglement of mammals fishers weren’t intending to haul aboard. Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 30 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for entanglement 
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Noun
  • Sliced thinly, the central ingredients create a towering tangle of crunch.
    Kendra Vaculin, Bon Appétit, 11 Feb. 2025
  • With estuaries full of reptiles, swooping egrets, and thick tangles of mangroves decorated in Cajun hibiscus, this is wild Louisiana.
    Jenny Adams, AFAR Media, 11 Feb. 2025
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  • Listen to this article Rodent issues — including one found alive in a sticky trap at an Italian restaurant and more than 40 droppings in a taco spot’s kitchen — were among the violations that led the state to temporarily shut nine South Florida restaurants last week.
    Kari Barnett, Sun Sentinel, 6 Feb. 2025
  • Determined to resolve the situation, the OP set a trap.
    Darlin Tillery, Newsweek, 6 Feb. 2025
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  • Is this a burgeoning love affair or just another con job stacked on top of a labyrinth of deceptions?
    Jordan Crucchiola, Vulture, 13 Feb. 2025
  • Through the Delta, the state and federal governments supply tap water to two-thirds of the state’s population and irrigation water to millions of acres of farms, with a labyrinth of levees, pumps and islands controlling the balance of saltwater and freshwater.
    Heather Knight, New York Times, 24 Jan. 2025
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  • The two starred in Alvarez’s 2016 web series The Gay and Wondrous Life of Caleb Gallo together along with Ebeling’s ex-girlfriend Stephanie Koenig, who also stars in English Teacher.
    Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 7 Feb. 2025
  • No single private citizen, certainly not one whose wealth and web of businesses are directly subject to the oversight of federal authorities, has wielded such power over the machinery of the U.S. government.
    Simon Shuster, TIME, 7 Feb. 2025
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  • Said to be the largest indoor market in Latin America, the 430,000-square-foot maze of hallways and booths offers an immersion-therapy-style introduction to Mexican market culture, with sections devoted to everything from soccer jerseys to caged birds.
    Freda Moon, New York Times, 13 Feb. 2025
  • The result is an ominous death rattle for cinema as it was known through the 20th century, and a frightening funhouse maze without a center.
    Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 12 Feb. 2025

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“Entanglement.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/entanglement. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.

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