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 focus is Frankie, and the commitment is more to studying her character than her romantic entanglements. Catherine Bray, Variety, 1 Oct. 2024 The new finding establishes a much stronger limit on entanglement in a mathematically rigorous way. Ben Brubaker, WIRED, 22 Sep. 2024 Hynes White played Xavier Thorpe, a Nevermore student who had some romantic entanglement with the title character, played by Jenna Ortega. Dave Nemetz, TVLine, 19 Sep. 2024 Though Hall-Long has the state party's backing, this race has largely been dominated by headlines regarding her entanglements with state campaign finance law. Geoffrey Skelley, ABC News, 10 Sep. 2024 See all Example Sentences for entanglement 
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Noun
  • The latest tangle between the parties occurred last night when Alex Soros—son of billionaire investor and entrepreneur George Soros—responded to an article about the popular vote count during the election.
    BYEleanor Pringle, Fortune, 20 Nov. 2024
  • Prior to the opening of the trail, the site of the northern headquarters of the 40,000-acre cattle ranch operation was little more than a few acres of nameless bullet-riddled stuff wrapped in a tangle of barbed wire.
    Mare Czinar, The Arizona Republic, 14 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • Finding new customers cannot and must not be the only solution to solving customer churn—that can be a trap.
    Agur Jõgi, Forbes, 21 Nov. 2024
  • Carpets are a home’s No.1 dirt trap and need thorough regular vacuuming.
    Marni Jameson, The Mercury News, 14 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • Turns out the Goblin King (a very campy David Bowie) is to blame and Sarah must solve a labyrinth—filled with creepy muppets—to rescue her brother.
    Lauren Brown West-Rosenthal, Parents, 19 Oct. 2024
  • The deal that is expected to install Skydance chief David Ellison as chairman, CEO and hopefully savior of Paramount Global is a labyrinth of entities, trusts and transactions.
    Kim Masters, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Sep. 2024
Noun
  • Today's enterprise technology stack is, by design, a complex web of AI models, APIs and microservices.
    Rajat Bhargava, Forbes, 21 Nov. 2024
  • An aphid had flown into a spider web and tried in vain to escape from the sticky threads.
    Alan Taylor, The Atlantic, 20 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • With the two candidates in town, the area of downtown surrounding the hotels was a maze of barricades, police cars, DMV trucks, Secret Service SUVs and ambulances serving as barricades to block off the streets.
    Mary Spicuzza, Journal Sentinel, 2 Nov. 2024
  • The Ghoul House maze monsters wear ghastly disguises and deliver jump scares designed to thrill, chill and terrify just like their Fright Fest, Scary Farm and Horror Nights compatriots.
    Brady MacDonald, Orange County Register, 24 Oct. 2024

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“Entanglement.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/entanglement. Accessed 29 Nov. 2024.

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