as in tangle
something that catches and holds
legal tanglements stemming from the museum's refusal to return the looted carvings
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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 -
Sliced thinly, the central ingredients create a towering tangle of crunch.—
Kendra Vaculin,
Bon Appétit,
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
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Determined to resolve the situation, the OP set a trap.—
Darlin Tillery,
Newsweek,
6 Feb. 2025
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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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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
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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
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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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And Musk's financial entanglement with Washington's largest department has stirred skepticism and concerns about conflict of interest.—
Cybele Mayes-Osterman,
USA TODAY,
17 Feb. 2025
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The book takes place over the course of one afternoon blow job, while both participants remember the entirety of their entanglement.—
Haley Mlotek,
The Atlantic,
14 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
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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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Pettersson missed the net during a two-on-one chance in OT.—
Harman Dayal,
The Athletic,
3 Feb. 2025
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Finally, the fourth neural net worked as an associative layer and predicted the output of the previous three at every time step.—
Ars Technica,
Ars Technica,
1 Feb. 2025
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