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noun

Definition of toilsnext
plural of toil
as in tangle
something that catches and holds a married woman hopelessly caught in the toils of an extramarital affair

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toils

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verb

present tense third-person singular of toil
as in labors
to devote serious and sustained effort toiled for many years on the mammoth outdoor sculpture

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for toils
  1. tangle
  2. trap
  3. struggles
  4. web
  5. strives
  6. entanglement
  7. works
  8. snare
Noun
  • Health insurance can involve a tangle of limitations due to provider networks, medical necessity rules and preauthorization requirements.
    Jay Feinman, The Conversation, 6 Jan. 2025
  • Struggling to keep track of a tangle of chargers while flying?
    Merrell Readman, Travel + Leisure, 4 Jan. 2025
Definition of tangle
Noun
  • Make sure your plans include fallback options for these users but don’t fall into the trap of falling back onto lower-assurance security factors.
    Aaron Painter, Forbes, 14 Jan. 2025
  • This is political gamesmanship at its worst, planting a trap for lawmakers by exploiting a tragedy.
    Paul Du Quenoy, Newsweek, 10 Jan. 2025
Definition of trap
Verb
  • Additionally, the jail struggles to provide adequate food, and unsanitary food distribution practices have left detainees vulnerable to malnutrition, pest infestations and other harms.
    Dan Perry, Newsweek, 4 Jan. 2025
  • But Moore sometimes struggles to take responsibility in the way expected of leaders.
    Colin Pascal, Baltimore Sun, 2 Jan. 2025
Definition of struggles
Noun
  • In addition to streaming via a web browser, Mubi offers apps for mobile phones, media streaming devices (Apple TV, Chromecast, Fire TV, and Roku), and Smart TVs.
    PCMAG, PCMAG, 13 Jan. 2025
  • Even those with home web access may not have unlimited data plans.
    Ryan Gillespie, Orlando Sentinel, 13 Jan. 2025
Definition of web
Verb
  • Eggers and his go-to production designer Craig Lathrop also put a unique emphasis on building realistic worlds—their production design strives extra hard to close gaps between Eggers’s olden aesthetic and the modern audience’s perception.
    Maya Ibbitson, Architectural Digest, 23 Dec. 2024
  • The company strives to be more than just a pet product brand.
    FunnyFuzzy Contributor, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024
Definition of strives
Noun
  • His effort to limit U.S. entanglements abroad could lead to U.S. underreach, leaving dangerous vacuums of power.
    Charles A. Kupchan, The Atlantic, 10 Jan. 2025
  • Trump's legal entanglements are not limited to the New York case.
    Paul Du Quenoy, Newsweek, 10 Jan. 2025
Definition of entanglement
Verb
  • The office also works with the Connecticut State Police Fire and Explosion Investigation Unit, which investigates the cause and origin of fires and arson.
    Sean Krofssik, Hartford Courant, 30 Nov. 2024
  • The former calls for a counterfactual view of how testing works; the latter calls for political will and policy ideas not currently in evidence.
    Peter Greene, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2024
Definition of works
Noun
  • The ebullient thrum of staccato snares, thumping sousaphones, and tramping shoes all acting in unison filled the gray morning air in the parking lot outside Angel Stadium recently.
    Connor Sheets, Los Angeles Times, 31 Dec. 2024
  • That didn’t prevent the first tribal project to come along — the Yakama Nation’s — from getting caught in a snare of bureaucracy.
    ProPublica, ProPublica, 20 Sep. 2024
Definition of snare
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