as in confusions
a state of mental uncertainty
my mind's been in a tangle ever since I learned some disturbing information about an online acquaintance
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as in traps
to catch or hold as if in a net
was at last tangled in the web of lies that he had told to everyone
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as in knots
to twist together into a usually confused mass
that darn cat tangled the yarn I was trying to knit with
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“Tangles.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tangles. Accessed 22 Nov. 2024.
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